Re: Dos Paths

From:	Neil Freeman	Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:39:01 +0000
Subject:	Re: Dos Paths
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FYI - Works in Windows NT 4 SP 6a as well. joakim.andersson@cybercom.se wrote:

************************************************************************** This Message Was Virus Checked With : SAVI 3.59 May 2002 Last Updated 8th July 2002 ************************************************************************** Hi all, It's actually rather easy. <?php
    $str_test = passthru("dir /x c:\\myfolder\\");
?
After this it's just a matter of parsing the dirlist and extracting the right string... Regards Joakim Andersson PS. dir /x works in Windows 2000, not sure about the others... DS.
-----Original Message----- From: BB [mailto:ben@themidwestgroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:15 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Dos Paths 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 Thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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