It doesn't matter how fast it does it. It matters what language it does it. C and C++ are a big no no as our company doesn't have a compiler (winblows).
Thanks for the pointer "David Otton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:14:44 +0100, you wrote: > > >I've got an application that requires dos folder names (8.3 standard) as > >input. > > > >I also have PHP, which quite happily can cope with both. > > > >Can someone help me write a function to translate full paths to dos paths > > You may have to drop down to C/C++ and ask the OS to lookup the short > version of the path for you (GetShortPathName and GetShortPathNameW). > But if you want to do it "by hand", Knowledge Base article Q142982 > might be a place to start. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php