From: jrogers@cascadenet.com (John D. Rogers) Subject: Re: Getting short name from long name? 4 Feb 1998 16:11:19 -0800 Message-ID: <34D8D0F3.67D0.cygnus.gnu-win32@cascadeinc.com> References: <16070.886592112@ps.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Pearson Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com James Pearson wrote: > > Is there any way I can get the short filename from a long filename using > gnu-win32 on Win95? > > For example, using readdir() gives the long filename as part of the > returned struct dirent, but I also need to know its short version. > > Is this possible? > > Thanks > > James Pearson > +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Dept. Geomatic Engineering Email: j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk > University College London WWW: http://www.ge.ucl.ac.uk > Gower Street > London WC1E 6BT > England > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". I don't know if this will help you or not, but the Win32 API has a function called GetShortPathName. The prototype is : DWORD GetShortPathName(LPCTSTR lpszLongPath, // points to a null-terminated path string LPTSTR lpszShortPath, // points to a buffer to receive the null-terminated short form of the path DWORD cchBuffer // specifies the size of the buffer pointed to by lpszShortPath ); Hope you find this useful! John D. Rogers jrogers@cascadenet.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".