"Grey Knight" <s16### [at] namtarqubacuk> wrote in message
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> Try parsing the string, stripping out spaces (and dots; I think short
> folder names ignore dots), then
> #if(strlen(Path)>8)
>   #declare Path=concat(substr(Path,0,6),"~1")
> #end
> Well, more or less. Needs to be done for each folder name, AND you need
> to change the number depending on the creation date of the folder and
> all similar folders. Heesh.
>

A little off topic.

The short path can be discovered using windows API calls

Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" _
      Alias "GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, _
      ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long


Gail

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