P Witte wrote: > What I meant to ax was would it be difficult to make a 'hole' > through QPC to the Windoze file system via the TCP driver, so that > when the driver encounters a /dos/pathname/filename it wouldnt feel > obliged to restrict itself to the QL file name conventions?
Could be done, but for what? You couldn't even do a DIR on the device. Unfortunately directories have to be read "raw", meaning that the format is limited to 36 characters. If one were to overcome this, one would probably have to create a few new "real" directory traps. After those are established and used in all the applications one could then think about extending them to allow more characters. But I can already hear the whining "but I can't adapt my application to use the new traps as then it wouldn't be QDOS compatible anymore", so I probably just don't bother. Not trying to discourage anybody else, of course, it's just my view of things. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
