OpenEuphoria

Re: [DOS] WinNT Problem Focused

• Posted by ck lester <cklester at YAHOO.COM> Oct 19, 2000
• 644 views

Let me restate that the problem is occurring from a DOS EUPHORIA program,
NOT a Windows one!

Therefore, using the "WinAPI" is unavailable to me for this function... no?

(.e files, not .ew files; an .ex file, not an .exw file)

Thanks!
ck

----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [DOS] WinNT Problem Focused


> Hi ck,
>
> I checked around the archive and couldn't see anything that called
> the WinAPI CreateFile directly.
> I modified win32fil.ew again (created by Jeffrey Fielding -
> thanks again Jeffrey) to add the CreateFile API call.
>
> Note: There are heaps of options for The Win API CreateFile which I have
> defaulted to standard values.
>
> You can pick the modified win32fil.zip file from:
>
> http://members.nbci.com/ray_223/sw/
>
> I tested it under win98 and it worked fine but don't have access to a
WinNT
> here at work, I'll see if I can test it out tonight at home.
>
> You will have to do a CreateFile("whatever")
> followed by an open file "I THINK".
>
>
> Hope this works!
>
> Ray Smith
>
> >> >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
> >>


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