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LongToShort (VERSION 1.00) by  Neil J. Rubenking
Copyright (c) 1997 Ziff Davis Publishing Company 
First Published April 8, 1997 
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About  LongToShort...

LongToShort is a command line utility that lets you use long filenames with older
applications that don't support them. 

LongToShort is a mere 61 lines of Delphi code, including comments. It takes the
16-bit program name and long filename as parameters. So if, for example, you're
still using Charles Petzold's BROWSE utility (as I am),  and you want to browse a
file called MysterFile, you'd type:

LTOS browse MysteryFile

LongToShort takes care of translating MysteryFile into a short filename that
BROWSE can handle. 

The syntax for LongToShort is

LTOS Program.exe This is a long filename.ext
LTOS Program.exe "This is a long filename.exe" arg1 arg2. . .

If command line arguments are added after the long filename, the long filename
must be in quotation marks. Note that LongToShort will retain the long filename
even if you make changes to it from within a 16-bit editor and save the file.

Load the data file whose long filename is specified in the second command-line 
parameter into the program whose name is specified in the first parameter, 
converting the long filename to a short filename. If additional command-line 
arguments are added after the long filename, the long filename must be 
enclosed in quotes.

Support for LongToShort:
Support for the free utilities offered by PC Magazine 
can be obtained electronically  in the discussion area 
of PC Magazine's Web site and in the Utilities section 
of ZD Net's TIPS Forum on CompuServe. For PC Magazine's 
Web site go to the URL http://www.pcmag.com/discuss/ 
and select the Utilities area. You can also access the 
Utilities discussion area from the utility's download 
page.  The authors of current utilities generally 
monitor the discussion area every day.  You may find 
an answer to your question simply by reading the 
messages previously posted. If the author is not 
available and you have a question that the sysops 
can't answer, the editor of the Utilities column, who 
also checks the area each day, will contact the 
author for you.

For ZD Net's TIPS Forum (GO ZNT:TIPS). The authors of 
current utilities generally visit this forum daily. 
You may find an answer to your question by reading the 
messages already posted in the forum. If the author is 
not available and the forum sysops can't answer your 
question, the Utilities column editor, who checks this 
forum each day, will contact the author for you.

Neil J. Rubenking is a contributing technical editor of 
PC Magazine.
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