I've noticed something somewhat odd. It's not so much odd, because I know why it happens, as it is annoying.

When you open a file via the commondialog control it will give the full (long filename) path and filename.

C:\My Documents\My Documents\Long.Filename.txt

If you have an application that opens a file via the command$ (command line) you are able to drop a file onto that application and it will automatically put that filename into the command line. But it appears in the old 8 char dos filename format.

C:\MYDOCU~1\MYDOCU~1\LONG.FIL~1.TXT

This is fine, because it still opens the file properly, but I have the information stored in a database that's accessed via the filename. If the filename string isn't exactly the same... then you can see what can be annoying about that.

Is there any built in string function that can convert them?


Jeremy