Hello Pierre, Thursday, August 15, 2013, 10:40:56 AM, you wrote: > Short paths work just fine. Not sure what goes wrong with the COM APIs Have you even read my example, or any of my posts before ? There is nothing wrong with COM API, paradoxically COM works ok and handles long and short paths just fine. It is the php itself that has problem with them. > or this test script. > But: > $shortpath= 'TESTUN~1.PHP'; > $handle = fopen($shortpath, 'w'); > works just fine. I said short paths to *UNICODE* file names, windows has this feature that allows apps that don't understand unicode to access these files and all even old win311 programs and every scripting and programming language I know can do that but not php. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php