Dawa,

But you *do* have control over the "abc.tif" portion of the filename, correct? And at runtime you know the long name of the application folder. George and Nancy have suggested that you create a file in that folder...you can give it any name, it is only a temporary file. You can get the short file name from that (since the file now exists), and use justpath() to get the short path name. For example:

lcShortFileName = justpath(lcTempFile) + "\" + "abc.tif"

HTH...

>Nancy,
>
>The application is built in such a way that it feeds to the printer driver file names dynamically based on the current record in a table. The application organizes the files printed into a sub-folder of the application. It is not predictable where the users will install the application. Usually, it would end up in \Program files\company\application folder. That is to say, the sub-folder would be \program files\compay\application\documents. If I have a file named "abc.tif", this is would be the long path: \program files\company\application\documents\abc.tif.
>Therefore, I may very well get a long path and a long file name.
>My application has to be able to convert long path and file names to short ones.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dawa