On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:37:19 -0400, "Jon S. Jaques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello Group,
>long ones, but I have a problem where I need to turn long names into short
>ones... partially because they are bogusly named Macintosh files... Does
>anybody know of an easy way to do this? (short of parsing the output of dir
>/X, that is!)
>
Did you try
$shortname = Win32::GetShortPathName($longname);
You find some other similar functions with "perldoc Win32".
-Jan
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