Dear all,
Please close this item, I can answer my own question now. Sorry for wasting
bandwidth.
While working on the Mac I realized that the system volume is not indeed a
volume but just a symbolic link to the root directory (/), hence the
explanation that SysFileTree() behaves differently on
I have a related question that someone might have the answer to,
While backing up everything from the root directory downwards on the Mac I
quickly got the error message that the path was to long, and that it can only
be 255 characters long on Unix like systems (like the Mac). This is a serious
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> got the error message that the path was to long, and that it can only be
> 255 characters long on Unix
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Hi P.O.
what's the exact error message?
what commands are you using to back "up downwards" (shell? Rexx?)
the maximum path length on Unix typically is not 255, rather much longer
"say .Rexx
Hello Erich thanks for checking. Here is the exact error message for both cases
(one at the time, the program breaks at this statement)
For dirs
*-* Compiled routine "SYSFILETREE".
7 *-* res = SysFileTree(SourceDir || slash || "*","dir","DO")
REX0040E: Error 40 running /Users/po/Data
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> REX0634E: Error 40.900: SysFileTree() argument 1 must be less than 255
> characters in length
I don't believe this restriction makes sense - please open a request for
enhancement (a bug report won't do, since we explicitly documented this
behavior)
Thanks!
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