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Re: [DOS] WinNT Problem Focused

• Posted by ck lester <cklester at YAHOO.COM> Oct 16, 2000
• 523 views

Can someone tell me why I received Derek's response to David's reply BEFORE
I received David's reply? Thanks.

Anyway, David, I'm using "longname.e," which does what we want in Win9x...
However, it apparently fails in NT! That's my dilemma. But, you're right,
I'll probably just create a dummy file then rename it to the long filename.

Derek, I don't think that will work in NT... but I'll check tomorrow when I
get back to work.

Thanks guys!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
> [mailto:EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf Of Derek Parnell
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 5:33 PM
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: [DOS] WinNT Problem Focused
>
>
> Another trick is to shell out to DOS with something like 'echo >"very long
> file name.ext"' then in Euphoria open it with the "w" parameter.
>
>
> -----
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
> derekp at solace.com.au
> Solace Limited ( http://www.solace.com.au )
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Derek Parnell [mailto:dparnell at bigpond.net.au]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 9:23 AM
> >To: derekp at solace.com.au
> >Subject: Re: [DOS] WinNT Problem Focused
> >
> >
> >ck lester wrote:
> >
> >> junk = open( "alongname.txt" , "w")
> >
> >You can only *create* 8.3 filenames in Euphoria. This limitation
> >only exists
> >for file creation.
> >
> >I'm fairly certain that someone wrapped a lot of these Win32
> file services,
> >including open with long file name. If not, you could always
> open the file
> >with a bogus name, close it, rename it, and then open it with the
> >long name.
> >
> >-- David Cuny
> >


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