I believe that in the past you already initiated a thread# 617632 on this issue and had some answers.

>I am using Adir() to check a directory for a set of files. A weird thing is happening. Adir() says a file exist but I can't find it. Here's what I found out. Using NT4 and the properties of a file shows the file name and the MS-Dos name of the file which I have found out don't always match. In this case the MS-Dos name for 849710-409A was '852202E'. Just so happens I was using Adir() to find '852202' which it says it found but not really. Is there any way around this?