Windows and long filenames

[DrkShadow]

I've written various perlgrams for windows and I'd quite much like to be
able to drag and drop them. The problem is, when I drag and drop or when I
throw a file at it via shortcut (send to menu.. really..), it passes a
short filename, which doesn't work. Just accept that.

So... I need to know one of two things:
how do I get windows to pass a long filename? I've looked at exe's in the
registry, everything is basically the same (DropHandler was copied to perl,
no effect).

Alternatively, how do I get a long filename from a short filename? Is there
a way that exists somewhere?

-DrkShadow

[dede]

Hi Drk,

could you give us an example of the snippet you are using ...
... and what was exactly the source that you tried to drop ... where?

dd, Paris

DrkShadow <an**@y.mous.com> wrote in message news:<Xn********************@216.196.97.142>...

I've written various perlgrams for windows >
-DrkShadow

[nobull]

DrkShadow <an**@y.mous.com> wrote in message news:<Xn********************@216.196.97.142>...

Alternatively, how do I get a long filename from a short filename? Is there
a way that exists somewhere?

Perl interfaces to Windows specific functions can be found in the
Win32 hierachy of modules. Finding the function you describe in there
took me less than a minuite. (Would probably have been less if I'd
thought to do a search on 'Long').

Repeating this process is left as an exercise for the reader to help
build self-sufficiency.

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