OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 08, 2004
• 836 views

Irv Mullins wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>
>> It took about 18 minutes on my old PC. The last file is '17000.txt',
>> containing the line "This is file #17000". I looks as if everything is
>> correct on my system (Windows 98, FAT32).
>> I think you are using Windows 95, and FAT16, right? But using the FAT16
>> system shouldn't cause the problem, should it?
>
> Perhaps you could try the test again, using long file names.
> I'll bet it's either that (LFN) or FAT 16.
> I haven't found any info on google about this, so it's not a very
> common problem.

Oops, I almost forgot about LFN. New program (as previously, using the
exw.exe 2.4 interpreter BTW):

sequence number
atom t
integer fn

t = time()
for i = 1 to 17000 do
   number = sprintf("%05d", {i})
   fn = open(number & " is the number of this file. Euphoria is cool."
           & " The weather is fine today.txt", "w")
   -- Each file name (including the extension '.txt') has 81
   -- characters. The directory, in which I ran the program was
   -- 'c:\temp\'. So the full qualified name of each file consisted
   -- of 89 characters.
   puts(fn, "This is file #" & number)
   close(fn)
end for
t = time()-t
? t/60
puts(1, "minutes")
if getc(0) then end if

Anything worked fine, up to file #08191 (inclusive). Then Euphoria said:
"Can't create error message file: ex.err"

Now it's your turn. 

Regards,
   Juergen