Re: 8.3 question

Maxim,
Your suggestion is just wrong. It does not work.
Does anyone know how to convert an 8.3 file & path to the long name?

I.E: C:\Progra~1\SomeLo~1\yada ya~1\fredan~1.xyz

into a long name:

C:\Program Files\SomeLongName\yada yada\fredAndEthelMertz.xyz

?

Thanks

"usfinecats" wrote:

Furthermore, ZwQueryInformationFile(...filenameinformation..) returns the
short file name that the file was opened up with .



"usfinecats" wrote:

Is there documentation on this guy?

I find no reference in MSDN , IFS, or at the Microsoft Website to the
details of this API?

"Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote:

Iterative NtQueryInformationFile.

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"usfinecats" <usfinecats@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After further digging I can refine this question:

What is the kernel mode equivelent of GetLongPathName?

"usfinecats" wrote:

How do you compare a file opened with an 8.3 file name vs a regular name?

I'm watching for files in a particular directory to be opened,

say: C:\Program Files\Some other long name\yada yada\fred.doc

and I see something coming in like C:\Progra~1\Some~1\....\fred.doc

Clearly, comparing strings does not make sense. How does one convert 8.3
to
a normal name, since going the other way is not 100% deterministic?

Are there other mechanisms around?


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