Re: How to determine whether a volume supports short names?

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David Lowndes wrote:
>> I can find numerous ways to check the long names support.
>> However, nothing is there to determine whether volume
>> supports _short_ filenames.
>
> Alex,
>
> For NTFS drives, is this perhaps what you need to check:
>
> NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation registry entry in
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem

Thanks, for answer. Yes, I know about this value in
Registry. However, I'd prefer some function call instead of
hacking Registry. Currently I can live with return code from
GetShortPathName. It's not _that_ essential for my program.
I just wondered what is the documented way.


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