OpenEuphoria

RE: long filenames under ex.err

• Posted by Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Feb 23, 2002
• 398 views

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Al Gonzalez [mailto:alg at nomscon.com] 
>Sent: February 23, 2002 1:08 PM
>To: EUforum
>Subject: RE: long filenames under ex.exx



>Mike Nelson wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that cd is a DOS command and DOS uses the space to
>> separate
>> command line parameters, so the cd C:\Program Files is interperted by
>> DOS as
>> "change directory to C:\Program, what the hell is that Files
parameter
>> for?"
>>
>> The Solution is to get DOS to see "C:\Program Files" as DOS does not
>> interpret a space in a quoted string as a parameter separator and
will
>> interpret as "Change directory to C:\Program Files, no problem."
>>
>> The correct Euphoria code is
>>
>> system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2)  -- the \"  includes a literal
"
>> in
>> the string
>>
>> By the way, it does no harm to enclose a file or folder name in
quotes
>> if it
>> has no spaces, so this solution will also work for variable
file/folder
>> names.
>>
>> -- MIke Nelson
>>

>Thanks Mike, but if you'll notice in my original post, I already tried
>that with the following results:

>> >    system("cd \"c:\\program files\"", 2) results in
>> >    Parameter format not correct -  "c:\program

>I get the same result under Windows 2000 and XP

>Al

Yes, Microsoft seems to have 'forgotten' long filename support in DOS
under Win2k and XP. So you'll have to use 8.3 format names.