Re: error message with full path

[Clarence Verge]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 02:23:10 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:

> The use of 8+3 directory names is not "funny" nor is it stretching any
> DOS rule.  A "directory" is nothing more than a file that lists where
> other files are hiding.  Any OS which can handle 8+3 as a file name can
> handle 8+3 as a "directory" name.

> The fact that you've run across such poorly written software that it
> can't handle an 8+3 directory name does not excuse the fact that Arachne
> *could* handle it before, but 1.70r3 *can't* handle it and SHOULD.

Hi LD, all;
Arachne 1.70r3 handles 8.3 directory names just fine - it even arrives
with them included. <G>
Check out the files in arachne\system\apm.db.
My a170 finds them and accesses them without problem.


- Clarence Verge
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