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"Thorsten Kettner" wrote something like:
>Convert path "C:\Dir1\Dir2\Dir3\..\..\SomeFile.ext" to 
>"C:\Dir1\SomeFile.ext".

Thank you Stefano and Vladimir. I am not looking for functions 
that truncate my path to fit in a given pixel width, but I am
glad though you mentioned the functions for two reasons. First:
You pointed me to PathCompactPath. That made me look at shlwapi
path functions. Thus I found PathCanonicalize, which is what I 
had been looking for. Second: I didn't know about MinimizeName
and PathCompactPath and coded something alike in another project
which I can replace now by a mere function call.


Explanation of what I was looking for:
The path "C:\Dir1\Dir2\Dir3\..\..\SomeFile.ext" means exactly 
the same as "C:\Dir1\SomeFile.ext", because "\.." means: go up 
one directory. If one interprets the path to find out where 
SomeFile.ext is located, it goes like this: Go to C:\, then go 
down to Dir1, then down to Dir2, then down to Dir3, then one 
dir up (to Dir2), then one dir up (to Dir1). I wanted the system
to state that the path "C:\Dir1\Dir2\Dir3\..\..\SomeFile.ext" 
means nothing else but simply "C:\Dir1\SomeFile.ext".