Its probably because the file does not exist... it has to exist before teh
function can work.
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From: "Grant Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 11:58
Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: ExtractShortPathName
> I find that on my new machine which runs Windows 2000, that
> 'ExtractShortPathName' returns an empty string. The function is a thin
> wrapper to the Windows API call 'GetShortPathName' - and MS claim that it
> works under Win NT/Win2K.
>
> I haven't tried it on a Win9x machine yet, but I am pretty sure it used to
> work.
>
> Has MS got it wrong, or am I missing something?
>
> var
> s : string;
> begin
> s := 'C:\Program Files\foobar.txt';
> s := ExtractShortPathName(s);
> edit1.Text := s; // s = '' !
> end;
>
> BTW - machine came with the 18Gb drive setup as one FAT32 partition -
> strange that it was not setup by Compaq to run NTFS...
>
>
> (Not actually offtopic, but I don't get delphi mail-list here)
>
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