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								| PathCompactPathEx Truncates a path to fit within a certain number of characters by replacing path components with ellipses. | VB4-32,5,6 Declare Function PathCompactPathEx Lib "shlwapi.dll" Alias "PathCompactPathExA" (ByVal pszOut As String, ByVal pszSrc As String, ByVal cchMax As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long
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 | Requires Windows 2000 (or Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 4.0 or later); Requires Windows 98 (or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0 or later) | 
 
 | · pszOut [out] Address of the string that has been altered.
 
 · pszSrc
 [in] Address of the string to be altered.
 
 · cchMax
 [in] Maximum number of characters to be contained in the new string, including the terminating NULL character. For example, if cchMax = 8, the resulting string can contain a maximum of 7 characters plus the NULL terminator.
 
 · dwFlags
 Reserved.
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 | Returns TRUE if successful, or FALSE otherwise | 
 
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