OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 11, 2004
• 593 views

Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:

>> From: Juergen Luethje
>> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 08:20:41 +0200
>>
>> 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):
>> Anything worked fine, up to file #08191 (inclusive). Then Euphoria said:
>> "Can't create error message file: ex.err"
>>
>> Now it's your turn. 
>>
>
>      I had about the same, but... 8191 text files, plus the program, the
> error file was still written, though. "file number invalid (-1)" was the
> error. I ran it in "D:\d". It took forever to try to delete the files, so i
> just deleted the directory, and recreated the program. There were no
> problems with the internet, or any other program, really.
>      Here is the program in Windows API. All it does is replace the builtin
> functions. There's no error checking on write, which could be done, i
> suppose. The error still occurs at the same time, though. I get an error
> code of 82, which is ERROR_CANNOT_MAKE: "The directory or file cannot be
> created."

Unfortunately, this error message is not much more specific than
Euphoria's error massage. Anyway, there is increasing evidence that this
is a general Windows issue, isn't it? But nobody on this list has heard
about it before ...?

[snipped the code]

Regards,
   Juergen