Looks to me (layman of all laymen) that it's trying to do the long filename
shuffle, ie.  C:\Program Files  becomes  C:\Progra~1.
Maybe Win9* accepts only these short forms while moving the paths around.
Something for me to read up about while mindlessly browsing the internat,
yippie!

Bob

"Sander" <san### [at] stolscom> wrote in message news:3878ac1a@news.povray.org...
> Thanks, I'll try and see if I understand that.
> The problem I'm having is -not- the size of the paths it seems now, but to
> get the function
> ===========
> 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
>    );
> ============
> to operate properly in W95/98 as well as in WNT4.
> --
> Regards,
> Sander
>
>
> Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> schreef in berichtnieuws
> 3878aaab@news.povray.org...
> >   I don't know what language you are using, but if it's C++ then using a
> > string class will remove all static limits. You can read _any_ sized
> strings
> > into them.
>
>
>

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