Re: Dos Paths
| From: | David Otton | Date: | Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:30:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Dos Paths | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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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.