opendir() - Is there a filename cap ?

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:32:58PM -0500):

| Quoting Fairlight (Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:23:14 -0500):
| [...]
| > I have a "silly" question, John.  The other day, you made the assertion
| > that one need never use nextdir() again--ever.  That was if one uses the
| > @arrays feature.
| >
| > Is that a special array to fP?  Because fP's arrays in general are
| > documented to being a maximum of 999 elements, are they not?  (Last
| > time I checked with an fP developer, I was told they were.)
| 
| It's 32767, not 999.

So @DIRLIST[] could have 32768 elements since, unlike arrays
_we_ can dimension, these arrays maintained by filePro all
begin with an element "0" ?

Bob

| ==========
| ::end:
| ::dim bigarray[32767](6,.0):
| @entsel::show "\{T}-Test bigarray":
| ::end:
| @keyT::xx(6,.0) = "1" ; sz(6,.0) = "32767":
| loop:xx le sz:bigarray[xx] = xx ; xx = xx + "1" ; goto loop:
| ::xx = "1":
| loop2:mod(xx,"1000") = "0":show popup xx & bigarray[xx] ; video sync:
| :xx ne bigarray[xx]:errorbox xx < "is not" < bigarray[xx] ; end:
| :xx lt sz:xx = xx + "1" ; goto loop2:
| ::clears:
| ::end:
| ==========
| 
| [...]
| 
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