AW: Pathnames in STRPCCMD command

Hi Erich,

back to my problem. It's working now but I seems curious to me.

My directory structure looks like:

C:/Programme/Micrografx
C:/Programme/Microsoft Autoroute Express
C:/Programme/microsoft frontpage
C:/Programme/Microsoft Ofice
C:/Programme/Microsoft Office XP

Excel will be found at folowing path:

C:/Programme/Microsoft Office XP/Office10/EXCEL.EXE

What I had to specify in my STRPCCMD was:

'C:\Programme\Micros~3\Office10\EXCEL.EXE'; 

I wonder why I had to set ~3 as I use actually the 4th directory named with
Micros...? 
Well, it runs but I didn't still understand the logic.

Kind reagards,
Werner Noll

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Erich W. Schasse [mailto:Schasse@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. August 2004 14:11
An: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Betreff: RE: Pathnames in STRPCCMD command


Hi Werner,

one completition:

The DOS command DIR /X shows you the long names together with the 8.3 name.

HTH

Kind regards
Erich W. Schasse

WIEDEMANN GmbH & Co. KG
IT/ORG
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31157 Sarstedt
Tel. 05066/997-190
Fax  05066/997-366
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+schasse=wiedemann.de@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Werner Noll
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:18 PM
To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Pathnames in STRPCCMD command


Hi All,

I found somewhere examples of valid pathnames for calling PC programs by
STRPCCMD.
Example for calling EXCEL:
'C:\Progra~1\micros~1\office\excel.exe'.
Such pathnames may differ from one the the other PC environment.
My question: Where can I find explanations on the syntax of this shortened
pathnames? E.g. what does ~1 stand for?

Many thanks in advance.
GEFIS Gesellschaft für
Individual-Software mbH
Werner Noll


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