I have not been following this thread, but I make long file names by building my file w/ a short name and then use the DOS copy command to make the long name. Example:
out ttt.txt write 'test out screen zip command /c copy ttt.txt ttt1234567890.txt Troy Sosamon ===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 9/05/02 9:14 am >Unfortunately for this customer, at this time I must work with RBASE 6.1a. >I will be attending the 7.0 seminar in 2 weeks (YEA!!!). >The purpose of that is to analyze a complete migration of our product from >6.1a to 6.5++ to 7.0! >But, for now, I must solve this issue using 6.1a conventions. >We don't anticipate a complete migration until January 2003. > >Thanks, > >David R. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon >Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:31 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Long File Names - Razzak's Reply > > > > >At 07:25 AM 9/5/2002 -0700, David Ratliff wrote: > >> I am working on an interface exporting data from RBASE 6.1 as an >>ASCII delimited file to a 3rd party app. The 3rd party app requires the >>filename contain an 18 character name with a 3 character extension. >> The 3rd party app requires I use the system date as the unique ID >>for the last 6 characters of the filename. I can not figure out how to >>precede my 6 character filename with the 12 additional characters >>(CSD1INVOICE_). >> Once the job is complete I will have created an ASCII delimited >file >>using the name CSD1INVOICE_######.DAT where ###### is the current date of >>the export (unique ID) out of RBASE. >> Any ideas how I might achieve a rename from short to long from >RBASE >>or DOS batch? I have tried XCOPY in a DOS batch file but that seems to work >>only if I append the 12 additional characters. Unfortunately I need them to >>precede the RBASE output filename. This is the last step in the design and >>must be automated for the user. > > >David, > >The Glorious R:BASE 2000 (ver 6.5++), Build:1.855xRT03 and higher for >Windows supports Long_File_Names with Long_Extensions. > >Very Best Regards, > >Razzak. > > >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
