GetLongPathName is supported since Windows 98. So I guess Windows 98
handles the long format correctly. And concerning Windows 95:
Sometimes an API should drop support for an operating system release.
Particular if the development is discontinued since 6 years.
Just one small addition: Probably
On Mittwoch, Mai 11, 2005, at 14:04 Europe/Berlin, Richard
Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 2005-05-11 12:30:06 +0100 Marc Brünink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. A method of NSString which converts 8.3 pathnames to long ones.
Again, 'why' windows provides one for you, and it would have no
use
Marc Brnink wrote:
However. I think if we use some nasty internal string representation
there SHOULD be a method to convert it to a nice format. And this
method shouldn't be an operating system method but a method within
GNUstep. But perhaps this is just my opinion.
FWIW, I don't
David Ayers wrote:
Marc Brnink wrote:
However. I think if we use some nasty internal string representation
there SHOULD be a method to convert it to a nice format. And this
method shouldn't be an operating system method but a method within
GNUstep. But perhaps this is just my opinion.
The nasty
On 2005-05-11 10:13:55 +0100 Marc Brünink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't it a bit outdated to return a MS-DOS 5.x string?
Backwards compatibility with MS-DOS is a Windows feature.
Nevertheless GNUstep should handle this. Either by changing
NSTemporaryDirectory() or by hacking
Nevertheless GNUstep should handle this. Either by changing
NSTemporaryDirectory() or by hacking openStepPathFromLocal and/or
stringByStandardizingPath.
I guess the task of GNUstep is to encapsulate all this awful operating
system functions. So GNUstep have be to hacked.
I don't understand
On Mittwoch, Mai 11, 2005, at 11:50 Europe/Berlin, Richard
Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 2005-05-11 10:13:55 +0100 Marc Brünink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't it a bit outdated to return a MS-DOS 5.x string?
Backwards compatibility with MS-DOS is a Windows feature.
Nevertheless GNUstep should handle
On 2005-05-11 11:12:40 +0100 Marc Brünink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What exactly is the logic of wanting it to be 'c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Administrator\' ?
If you want to store files in 'c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Administrator\.', I would have thought you should be using
that
However I simply want:
1. A NSTemporaryDirectory() funtions which doesn't return 8.3 paths,
but real
cool nice and fancy long path names.
My question was 'why' ... that is what I don't understand.
Given that the NSTemporaryDirectory() is an internal location used for
temporary file storage, and
On 2005-05-11 12:30:06 +0100 Marc Brünink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. A method of NSString which converts 8.3 pathnames to long ones.
Again, 'why' windows provides one for you, and it would have no use
whatsoever outside of the windows environment, so adding it to GNUstep
would be
Marc Brünink wrote:
Hi folks,
on my Windows machine NSTemporaryDirectory() returns a string like:
~C/DOKUME~1/ADMINI~1/
So this is the old DOS representation of names which are longer than 8
characters.
That is correct.
Type 'set' at the command prompt on your windows machines and you'll see
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Marc Brünink wrote:
Hi folks,
on my Windows machine NSTemporaryDirectory() returns a string like:
~C/DOKUME~1/ADMINI~1/
So this is the old DOS representation of names
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