On 4/18/24 04:50, yary wrote:
I did a lot of very deep windows programming in my previous job and
reminding me that I would always use the 8.3 short name for file
operations! dir /x will get it for you. Must be API called for it also.
Probably only works on local volumes not network rounded
I did a lot of very deep windows programming in my previous job and
reminding me that I would always use the 8.3 short name for file
operations! dir /x will get it for you. Must be API called for it also.
Probably only works on local volumes not network rounded ones. Just a guess.
I've run into
On 4/17/24 19:10, William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
Hi Todd,
Here are a few U StackExchange answers that I wrote using Raku's `unlink`:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/459521/how-to-truncate-file-to-maximum-number-of-characters-not-bytes/751267#751267
Hi Todd,
Here are a few U StackExchange answers that I wrote using Raku's `unlink`:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/459521/how-to-truncate-file-to-maximum-number-of-characters-not-bytes/751267#751267
On 4/17/24 05:52, yary wrote:
From unlink's documentation:
If the file to be deleted does not exist, the routine treats it as success.
So trying to delete a file that isn't there, doesn't have an error,
which is kind of neat, but that is a difference from native delete.
-y
Hi Yary,
Not
On 4/17/24 05:52, yary wrote:
From unlink's documentation:
If the file to be deleted does not exist, the routine treats it as success.
So trying to delete a file that isn't there, doesn't have an error,
which is kind of neat, but that is a difference from native delete.
-y
Hi Yary,
Not
On 4/17/24 05:50, yary wrote:
What does the windows native delete do which you need, that raku's
unlink doesn't have?
without unlink $FileName { say "Could not delete $FileName:",
.exception.message };
-y
Hi Yary,
This is Windows we are dealing with. It is a kluge.
I have had unlink
>From unlink's documentation:
If the file to be deleted does not exist, the routine treats it as success.
So trying to delete a file that isn't there, doesn't have an error, which
is kind of neat, but that is a difference from native delete.
-y
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 8:50 AM yary wrote:
>
What does the windows native delete do which you need, that raku's
unlink doesn't
have?
without unlink $FileName { say "Could not delete $FileName:",
.exception.message
};
-y
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:29 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
> On 4/16/24 23:25,
On 4/16/24 23:25, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
`\\>\` should have been
`\\?\`
On 4/16/24 20:57, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
$LongName = $FileName;
if $FileName.chars >= MAX_PATH { $LongName = Q[\\?\] ~ $FileName; }
What the about is all about is that MAX_PATH, which
limits the file name to 260 characters, can go up to
32,767 wide characters, prepend
On 4/16/24 18:43, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 4/16/24 01:21, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
Hi All,
Windows 11
It has been so long that I have done one of these that
my brain is seizing.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-deletefilea
C++
On 4/16/24 01:21, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
Hi All,
Windows 11
It has been so long that I have done one of these that
my brain is seizing.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-deletefilea
C++
BOOL DeleteFileA(
[in] LPCSTR lpFileName
);
Would
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