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Re: Euphoria's "dir()" command and name length limit?

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Dec 12, 2005
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Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > There was talk in this forum about Eu's dir command returning only
> > names that are 100 or less characters in length, but i tested it
> > yesterday (v2.4) and even that worked fine on the Win platform
> > for names with more than 100 characters (140 or so chars).
> > So now, im wondering what was this talk about, since it appears to
> > work just fine (win XP / .exw files).  Was it maybe in dos only
> > using .ex files?
> 
> The corrent limit is 255 characters for the entire path name (from
> drive letter to extension) in Windows, and in DOS, stil 255 but only
> 8.3 file name lengths. If you use my win_dir() routine, which uses
> Unicode (only available in WinNT/2k/XP) you expand this capacity to
> over 32,000 characters, with a 255 character component length. A
> 'component' is any piece of the path between two slashes, or the file
> name itself.
> 
> Yes, you may have all the 100+ character filenames you want and still
> use dir(), but if you try putting it into a deep path or a path with
> long folder names, you'll run into an issue when the whole path
> exceeds 255 characters.
> 
> My win_dir() routine may be found in the Archive. Its also *much*
> faster than dir().
> 
> ~Greg
> 
> 

Hi there Greg,

Ok then i'll have to try it :)

Take care,
Al

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