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"dude" <bendixdude@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> LPCTSTR lspFilename;
> LPTSTR spFilename;
> unsigned long buffer;
> ::GetShortPathName(lspFilename,spFilename,buffer);

You are not using GetShortPathName() correctly.  You need to pass in a
pre-allocated buffer to accept the short filename, GetShortFileName() will
not allocate the buffer for you.  It should be more like this instead:

    TCHAR spFilename[MAX_PATH+1] = {0};
    ::GetShortPathName("the long file name here", spFilename,
sizeof(spFilename));

> This is to convert for the shellexecute command because
> that will bomb as well, given a long file name.

No, it will not bomb on LFNs.  However, if you are concerned about it, you
could just pass the filename as part of the lpApplicationName parameter
instead of the lpCommandLine parameter, that way you can surround the
filename with extra quotation marks:

    ::ShellExecute(NULL , "open", "EXCEL.EXE \"the long file name here\"",
NULL, 0, SW_SHOW);


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