[xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature

2003-08-14 Thread Michal Altair Valasek
|It is no problem. You can refer to Microsoft's document. |Sorry I can't tell you the detail. This *IS* problem, because file with that name cannot be opened (at least under .NET). Unfortunately, searching for such obscure string is near to impossible, so if you would remember more exact location

[xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature

2003-08-14 Thread Jhon Wong
hi, It is no problem. You can refer to Microsoft's document. Sorry I can't tell you the detail. - Hello, when calling filter with argument "@@FILE", the filename is returned in the following format: \\?\D:\MailRoot\spool\19\21\mess\1060651850972.2216.chalco What's it? Running XM

[xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn Anderson
Did you miss the long discussion about the Win32 API CreateFile and files names like com1, prn1, etc? :) Check the archives for CreateFile and you will see many emails back and forth about why Davide made the change. Shawn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

[xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Schmid
Hi Michael The Windows path names are limited in length. A normal path name must not exceed 248 character. The '\\?\" prefix is Microsoft's work-around that extends the path length to 32000 characters. It works fine as long as no legacy functions are used. There is a high number of programs th

[xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn Anderson
the original string. Shawn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Altair Valasek Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature |It is no problem. You can

[xmail] Re: "\\?\" in file name: bug or feature

2003-08-14 Thread T. Mike Howeth
In windows, it enables Unicode support for the pathname. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/naming_a_file.asp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send th