OpenEuphoria

Re: Error: file name for open() is too long

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at g?x.d?> Dec 19, 2007
• 513 views

Derek Parnell wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > using exw.exe 3.1.1 on Windows XP, a program crashed with the error message:
> >    file name for open() is too long 
> > 
> 
> I think that all Windows, before Vista, had a hardcoded operating system limit
> of 255 characters.

Hmm.. the file and the long name does exist on Windows (FAT 32, btw.),
and I can e.g. copy it using Total Commander, or open it using Firefox
(it's a HTML file). So I hardly can imagine that this limit is built-in
in Windows XP.

> I think Vista did away with this limit and Unix has a limit
> of at least 5000 characters.

Very good!

> What, out of curiosity, is the path/file you are trying

Not only the file itself, but even its name has some private content,
so I don't actually want to publish it. If this really is a problem with
the Euphoria interpreter/translator, other people will be able to confirm
it with other files anyway.

> and why does it have to be so long?

It doesn't have to, I didn't make it deliberately so long. Just by
organizing my files in several subdirectories, now there is this
long path & file name.

Regards,
   Juergen