Cannot Use Long Path Names anymore?

[JazzBass]

Hi,

Help! My Visual Basic installation went in the trash today and when I reinstalled it, I could no longer use long path names. I compiled a project and ran it from another machine and it worked fine there.

If I change the path to the DOS short path, it works fine.

I just reinstalled Service Pack 6 on NT and that did not help. I'll try and reinstall VS Service Pack 3 now. The only thing I can think of I did recently was installed Visual Studio Installer 1.1 or 1.2 (I don't remember).

Has anyone experienced this? Can anyone help?

Last thing to do is wipe my C drive and reinstall NT.

Thanks,
JazzBass

[JazzBass]

Hi,
Just wanted to add that it looks like it's only with the SHELL command that I can't use long path names.

I tried using the DIR command, and it finds the directories without a problem.

Any help is appreciated.

JazzBass

[xmin]

Have you used Chr$(34) to enclose the long path name? If not, try it and it is very effective.

[JazzBass]

Thanks for the tip,
I've since uninstalled VB, so I really don't have a way to test it.

I've been kinda wanting to rebuild my system anyway, so I guess this is my chance.

The funny thing is that the same code, same everything works on other machines and not mine.

Go fig.

Thanks,
JazzBass