Player Filename too long

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 1:51PM -0700 7/30/03, Jez wrote:
>If a player's filename (including the path) is too long, it simply
>doesn't play at all. When will this be fixed ? I was hoping it would be
>fixed in 2.0 but no ...

Have you bugzilla'd this?

>Failing a fix, is there a way to translate a long path ("C:\Program
>Files\etc") into a 16-bit short path ("C:\Progra~1\etc"), which may help

The shortFilePath function will do this.

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