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(crazyinsomniac: so lazy, what a shame) Re: Perl & Window's system stuff: Can they get along?

(crazyinsomniac) Re: Grabbing 8.3 DOS names

use Win32;
my $path =Win32::GetFullPathName($file);
die Win32::GetLongPathName($path);
# Win32::GetShortPathName
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