Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Angus> The allowable length of "mangled_file_name" below is dependent > Angus> on the (unmangled) path to the directory that is to contain > Angus> this file:
> Can you pass this directory to the function too? That's what I was proposing to do. I'll do it. > Or you can fix the file name to 50 characters, which "should be enough > for everybody" as someone said once. Just because realistically these problems occur only under Windows, there's no need to rub it in by quoting William Gates, Esq. at me ;-) -- Angus