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Aug 21, 2008
03:29 PM
Short path notation?
This might be a silly question, but is there a way to convert a long directory path to the short DOS notation without custom code?
ie:
if $USER_INSTALL_DIR$ = C:\Program Files\...
I need $USER_INSTALL_DIR$ =C:\Progra~1\...
ie:
if $USER_INSTALL_DIR$ = C:\Program Files\...
I need $USER_INSTALL_DIR$ =C:\Progra~1\...
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Aug 21, 2008
04:05 PM
Offhand, I'm not aware of anything built in; the Win32Service interface has a getShortPath method that should do it, but that's custom coding, of course...
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