Subj : Re: long filename... To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB] Date : Sun Oct 10 2004 09:23 am If the file is named as you say then the structure whose values are set by FindFirstFile or FindNextFile should have this in the cFileName element Evanescence - Going Under(Zone).mpg and this in the cAlternateFileName element EVANES~1.MPG .. Ed > ron wrote in message > news:4168bf8b@newsgroups.borland.com... > thanks man > i tried what u said > > but thats still look like that : > EVANES~1.MPG > instade of > Evanescence - Going Under(Zone).mpg .