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Thank You Remy

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James Porter
"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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);
>
>
> Gambit
>
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