Just wondering if someone can add a new perspective to a problem. I am developing for a win system and using fileio. Currently fileIO has a problem with paths over 126 chars so I use BuddyAPI's baShortfilename to truncate the path. All good so far, but now the problem arises. The baShortFileName only returns a truncated name from a file that already exists and I'm currently using the create method of the xtra. Therefore I can't create the file because I can't trucate the path and I can't truncate the path because I can't create the file! (oooh my head hurts) Any other (inbuilt/free) Xtras that create files or truncate filenames available? Any way of truncating the filename using lingo so that Windows can read it?
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