Derek, I guess it won’t. This has been discussed quite a bit in the past, but in my opinion, there’s no compatible way to overcome this limitation whithout a fundamental change in how device drivers work together with the operating system.
The file/path name length in QDOS/SMSQE is deeply buried in the channel definition block which is not allocated by the device driver, but instead by the operating system itself. Without changing that part of the OS, the device driver can’t do much about it. Once the OS is changed, it would create files no longer accessible with the „original“ OS. What could be done, maybe, would be a similar kludge to what MS did when they introduced long file names - mainly „translating“ long names into short ones that can be handled by an unchanged OS. Short names would still be limited to the known path name length, though. Along that line, there used to be a promising extension named „QVFS“ by Hans-Peter Recktenwald that allowed the usage of longer path names as an „overlay“ on top of the actual device driver - The code is still around, but has never been widely adopted, because it was not exactly easy to handle. Regards, Tobias Am 11.02.2014 um 10:08 schrieb Derek Stewart <de...@q40.de>: > Hi Dave, > > Are you going to have long file names, that is longer than the current > length in SMSQ/E. > > Regards, > > Derek > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
