Long file name issue (Easy issue)

[Scott Turchin]

I Just woke up so forgive me if this is babble..

Just curious why this function/API call returns a short file name under Win2k.
No big deal, it works, just curious more than anything.
It returns something like
C:\DOCUME~1\TNGBBS~1.TNG\LOCALS~1\Temp\

Where as it would normally be something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\Tngbbs.tng\local settings\temp

Function GetWindowsTempDir()Export As String
'SPT 1/22/01
Local lResult As Long
Local buff As Asciiz * 255
lResult = GetTempPath(ByVal SizeOf(buff), Buff)
Function = Trim$(buff)
End Function

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[Borje Hagsten]

Hm, it primarily grabs this path from the TMP ot TEMP environment
variable in.. yes, from where in Windows2000? Should be Autoexec.bat
in older systems, but.. The registry? That is probably where the
short name "error" is, since the call in itself doesn't check any
paths.


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