Translate Between Short and Long Paths

I wrote a simple dialog-based app that takes a path string as an input and produces the short and the long path names as an output. Nothing fancy here. Just plain vanilla code that might prove useful to someone.

For example entering: C:\Program Files\util\vslick\win;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\STINGR~1\OE104\lib;C:\PROGRA~1\STINGR~1\Common\ COMMON~1.01\lib;C:\PROGRA~1\STINGR~1\Common\MVC6~1.01\lib;C:\PROGRA~1\STING R~1\OT601\lib

produces the long path as follows: C:\Program Files\util\vslick\win;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Stingray Objective Studio\OE104\Lib;C:\Program Files\Stingray Objective Studio\Common\Common 6.01\lib;C:\Program Files\Stingray Objective Studio\Common\MVC 6.01\lib;C:\Program Files\Stingray Objective Studio\OT601\lib

and the short path as follows: C:\PROGRA~1\util\vslick\win;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\PROG RA~1\MICROS~2\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Common\Tools;C:\PROGR A~1\MICROS~2\VC98\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\STINGR~1\OE104\lib;C:\PROGRA~1\STINGR~1\C ommon\COMMON~1.01\lib;C:\PROGRA~1\STINGR~1\OT601\lib;q:\ntutil;q:\util;c:\t ools;q:\es\3rdparty\windows;q:\es\dev

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Date Last Updated: May 17, 1999