RE: [jamboost] stage.py/msvc

From: bjorn.karlsson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2003-03-25 06:29:35

> From: Vladimir Prus [mailto:ghost_at_[hidden]]
> 
> Does anyone knows a Windows API function which can return 
> long path given a 
> short one? I've tried to look, but found none.

There's an API function called GetLongPathName - but it isn't available for
NT (or Windows 95, but that's hardly an issue). I think you'll have to roll
your own in order to get it to work on all Windows versions. A quick
Google-search came up with a possible hack -
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/articles/longpaths.html.

Bjorn Karlsson