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Re: Re: Win32::GetShortPath doesn't always return an 8.3 short Path?

by jimbojones (Friar)
on Mar 09, 2004 at 14:55 UTC ( [id://335117]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Win32::GetShortPath doesn't always return an 8.3 short Path?
in thread Win32::GetShortPath doesn't always return an 8.3 short Path?

Hi,

Thanks for the responses. The directory does exist. The "problem" is one with the filesystem. Turns out, if you set a Windows Registry key 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDis
+able8dot3NameCreation

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the filesystem will not allow a short file name to be aliased to the long file. The sysadmins on the machine had set this key for security purposes. I assume that the GetShortPath routine calls the system dll, assuming the "short" value returned is in 8.3 format, although it's now not guarenteed to be. So it's not a Perl problem per se, although the Perl doc is not absolutely correct.

Again, thanks for the responses.
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