On Dec 28, at 10:19 | Dec28, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
> Am 26.12.2011 12:25, schrieb George Gwilt:
>> I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name. The
>> name was actually
>> ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the
>> contents of the file correctly, it did so with a purple coloured ink. This
>> ink was set for all other files read in provided the name was not of maximum
>> length. The file ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345_wda1 reset the colour
>> to a rather fainter, almost unreadable, purple.
>>
>> Is this a new feature of QD? Has anyone noticed this before?
>>
>> George
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> George,
> looks like you've found a bug in QD - The same for me here (well, the color
> is not exacly purple, but some oddly stippled brownish green). Looks like the
> long filename overwrites some of QD's internal storage for the ink color. And
> I remember there were some discussions in the past what /exactly/ is the
> longest allowed filename in QDOSSMSQ (i.e is the device part part of it or
> not).
> Interestingly, if you start QD with the very same long filename from the
> command line (i.e ex qd;<verylongname>) it refuses to save the file ("Not
> found") in my setup and doesn't produce any other quirk. It looks to me as if
> there's a mismatch in allowed filename length between QD and the Menu
> extension.
> Will try and keep my filenames short enough in the future ;)
>
> Happy new year to all of you
> Tobias
I don't remember that discussion, but I *know* that device is part of it, as
when I used particular 'good' filename via the network in the early days, it
failed, as length was increased by three.
The *real* limit is less three if one uses a network - and even that is longer
if one networks more than 9 machines. Has anyone? I know Leon Jaeggi did in
his short fling with QLs and his kitchen business.
Remember my "Telepen Barcoder"? This was hardware being sold by Dave Storton
(DS Enterprises) at a ZX MIcrofair. He called them 'lightpens' and sold none.
I realised what they were and bought them all at a really low price. Leon
bought all my remaining stock and was going to use them, with QLs at his tills.
I think the business folded before he did that.
Also I reduce most of my 'paths' to very limited length, as they too, of
course, are part of the filename.
Isn't it a pity that filename handling, with paths, was not done better from
the start. No-one wants novels as a filename, but the QL limit is so
ridiculously short.
I suppose it was *fine* in the microdrive days (8-)#
Tony
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