opendir() - Is there a filename cap ?

[John Esak]

I think they would NOT be truncated if he would use the @arrays suggested by
Ken, me and others earlier. My thanks to Alan Mazuti for reminding me about
these things I had seen in an earlier New Release Notes file and just
ignored. Very useful, and you *never* need NEXTDIR again... ever... :-)

(Enrique, my apologies. I had suggested in an earlier note on this thread
that you just look in the filePro Survivor Series CD's you bought. However,
I checked just now again, and it was *another* Enrique who pruchased them,
sorry.  But, if I might be so bold. This and just about every other major
filePro function is gone over in a step-by-step set of movies that builds an
elaborate filePro accounting application. Taken from start to finish, I
believe they greatly help anyone who uses them... beginner through advanced
programmers included. You may see things a little differently than you are
used to doing them. Normally, I would just thow up a whole series of code
that you could look at here... but there is so much already done on the CD's
and done so much better since it is an actual movie of the code and how it
works... it becomes too much trouble to try and imitate it less-well here.)

{Doesn't mean I won't keep putting up code and examples for anything and
everything... but on occasions like this, it seems a waste of time almost.
Wouldn't know where to start and how to present it any reasonable way in the
amount of time I can dedicate to this forum... sorry.]

--
John Esak
(570) 384-2444

Author of:
The filePro Survivor Series
Complete Video Training For FilePro On CD
See samples at: www.valar.com/training


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Fairlight
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:15 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: opendir() - Is there a filename cap ?
>
>
> At Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:55:40PM -0800 or thereabouts,
> suspect Enrique Arredondo was observed uttering:
> > Why doesn't opendir detect this files :
> >
> > E-Mitsu183-15-A22-1_0000.gif
> > E-Mitsu183-15-A22-1_0001.gif
> > tnailE-Mitsu183-15-A22-1_0000.gif
> > tnailE-Mitsu183-15-A22-1_0001.gif
> >
> > I have hundres of files and some are not detected and some are
> detected ,
> > Is there a lenght cap ?
>
> Not detected at all, or truncated in the array that shows the names.  The
> offsets and lengths indicated a 32 character length would be represented.
>
> Actually, opendir() shouldn't have any limits--it just does an opendir()
> internally.  It's nextdir() you have to be concerned about.  I
> should think
> they'd appear but be truncated.  Is this not the case?
>
> mark->
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