I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath name
from it
How do i do this?
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"Jonathan Smith" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb: I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath
name
from it
See:
<URL:http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/msg/ebf01196a689c3af>
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
What do you mean by shortpath?
"Jonathan Smith" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97**********************************@microsof t.com... I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath
name
from it
How do i do this?
what he means ??
<tutor mode >
start , run , type cmd then enter
go to the root ( cd.. and press enter untill you reach the root of C )
now type progra~1
hey doens`t that look familiar ??? wel you have just entered the program
files folder ,, so this is the short path name
</tutor mode >
hth
Michel Posseth [MCP]
"SStory" <no****@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... What do you mean by shortpath?
"Jonathan Smith" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath
name
from it
How do i do this?
ahum now type progra~1
should be type cd progra~1 and press enter
"m.posseth" <mi*****@nohausystems.nl> wrote in message
news:OE******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
what he means ??
<tutor mode >
start , run , type cmd then enter
go to the root ( cd.. and press enter untill you reach the root of C )
now type progra~1
hey doens`t that look familiar ??? wel you have just entered the program
files folder ,, so this is the short path name
</tutor mode >
hth
Michel Posseth [MCP]
"SStory" <no****@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... What do you mean by shortpath?
"Jonathan Smith" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath
name
from it
How do i do this?
I thought that might be what he meant, but wanted clarification.
"m.posseth" <mi*****@nohausystems.nl> wrote in message
news:OE******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
what he means ??
<tutor mode >
start , run , type cmd then enter
go to the root ( cd.. and press enter untill you reach the root of C )
now type progra~1
hey doens`t that look familiar ??? wel you have just entered the program
files folder ,, so this is the short path name
</tutor mode >
hth
Michel Posseth [MCP]
"SStory" <no****@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... What do you mean by shortpath?
"Jonathan Smith" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath
name
from it
How do i do this?
Herfried's response gave me the info i was looking for
THanks all
"SStory" wrote: I thought that might be what he meant, but wanted clarification.
"m.posseth" <mi*****@nohausystems.nl> wrote in message
news:OE******************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
what he means ??
<tutor mode >
start , run , type cmd then enter
go to the root ( cd.. and press enter untill you reach the root of C )
now type progra~1
hey doens`t that look familiar ??? wel you have just entered the program
files folder ,, so this is the short path name
</tutor mode >
hth
Michel Posseth [MCP]
"SStory" <no****@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... What do you mean by shortpath?
"Jonathan Smith" <Jo***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...
I had a quick look on the newsgroup, but i couldn't find the answer.
I have a long path name but i need to be able to extract the shortpath
name
from it
How do i do this?
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