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Find That Long Pathname


David Goben
11.21.2000
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Find That Long Pathname

File names can be a bear, especially when you need to know a full file name or path, and all you have is the file specification in the old style 8.3 format. Reader David Goben offers this tip, which allows you to find a full pathname given the file name.

A lot has been said about the GetShortPathname() API call, but I have not seen anything regarding obtaining the long path name, which is something we require at my company. So I'm submitting the following module code wh

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ich will support this. It takes advantage of the GetLongPathName() API available to Win98/Me/2000, but this code will also support NT4.0/Win95 if this API is not available:

Thanks, David. As a token of our appreciation, we will be sending you a SearchVB denim shirt.

David Goben is lead developer for Merry Mechanization, Inc.'s Advanced Development Group. He have been programming since 1978, first in Assembler, then Fortran, C, Forth, Pascal, and finally BASIC. He has used VB since Version 1.0.

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