Delphi get short file name

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Mason Wheeler Mason Wheeler Miriam Farber 17k 12 12 gold badges 54 54 silver badges 72 72 bronze badges. Abdullah Abdullah 21 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. The buffer should be large enough to contain the largest possible Windows 95 path in the short form characters, including the drive letter, colon, leading backslash, and terminating null character.

Relative paths containing the characters ". Since this function performs validation, SourcePath must contain either a valid filename or path. Other Threads 1. How do you get the DOS file name of a file with a long file name. Board index » delphi » Short File NAmes m Short File NAmes. Duncan Murdo. Re:Short File NAmes.