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How to get the long file name from an 8.3 name in Windows.

964942Sep 27 2012 — edited Oct 1 2012
Because of a legacy string limitation, I have a list of files in 8.3 format. The actual files are saved with long names. How can I get the long name from the short name?

In JavaScript, I would get a file system object and get the file object from there with the short name. Then it's no problem to get the full name. But I don't see anything in Java that matches that. ???

Ideas?

Frank Perry, MSEE
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