OpenEuphoria

Re: Long File Names Support?

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <danielberstein at USA.NET> Jul 28, 1997
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> I read the documents for Euphoria.
> It does NOT support Win95, NT filenames.
> Robert DOES have plans to support them but hasn't
> released support yet.

        In DIR() documentation it's said that Euphoria has PARTIAL support
for long filenames.
        You can call DIR() with a long filename/path under Win95, but the
returned filenames are in 8.3 format. Something similar applies for
OPEN(), you can specify a long filename/path for an EXISTING file,
but for creating a new one ("w" mode) you must give a standard 8.3
name.
        In conclusion: Euphoria (up to version 1.5) allows you to access
EXISTING long filenames under Win95/NT, but not to create NEW long
filenames (this applies to directory names too).

Regards,
  Daniel Berstein
  danielberstein at usa.net
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/9316