I don't either understand why using long file-names and long directory navigations... such things are said just to AVOID THEM ! As if it well being an easy making if having titles of books or whatever, but if your stacking up stuff or items, objects you sooner or later run into - probleeamas, as I can see now. Root-handle as much as possible, and give shorter initial namings folowing first letters of words or so...index numberings. Whatever. Long namings and Mac-file systems are convenient, but PC-folks are well tortured in this matter in shorter filenamings 8-character long pre-history. And we've survived it...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > At 03:41 AM 11/30/02, Brad Hile wrote: > >Just wondering if someone can add a new perspective to a problem. > >I am developing for a win system and using fileio. > >Currently fileIO has a problem with paths over 126 chars so I use > BuddyAPI's > >baShortfilename to truncate the path. > >All good so far, but now the problem arises. > >The baShortFileName only returns a truncated name from a file that > already > >exists and I'm currently using the create method of the xtra. > >Therefore I can't create the file because I can't trucate the path and > I > >can't truncate the path because I can't create the file! (oooh my head > >hurts) > >Any other (inbuilt/free) Xtras that create files or truncate filenames > >available? > >Any way of truncating the filename using lingo so that Windows can read > it? ------------------------------------------------- FREE E-MAIL IN 1 MINUTE! - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pc.nu [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
