Short filename broken?

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Has anybody successfully used the short filename conversion function of
Set Variable? It appears broken to me (build 2040). With a variable
containing a path like this:
X:\some name
It returns this:
X:\some name

I was expecting something like this:
X:\SOMENA~1

(Necessary for redirection files because at least some versions of
Clarion will not redirect to a path with embedded spaces.)

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Phil Carroll
http://www.enablingsimplicity.com

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Never mind - the answer was obvious.

The path has to exist first on the target machine. I was testing a
script, and the path did not exist because the script did not create the
path in test mode.

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Phil Carroll
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