Re: Cannot write to auto-generated file name

2007-04-03 Thread Vitaly Lomov
It's a file system issue on windows: file path length is limited to 259 chars. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/148754

RE: Cannot write to auto-generated file name

2007-04-03 Thread Tony Lewis
Vitaly Lomov wrote: It's a file system issue on windows: file path length is limited to 259 chars. In which case, wget should do something reasonable (generate an error message, truncate the file name, etc.). It shouldn't be left as exercise for the user to figure out that the automatically

Re: Cannot write to auto-generated file name

2007-04-03 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From Tony Lewis: In which case, wget should do something reasonable (generate an error message, truncate the file name, etc.). [...] Sadly, this is easier said than done. Around here (VMS), the complaint is i/o error. I haven't tried it on a UNIX, but it could easily be different there,

Re: Cannot write to auto-generated file name

2007-04-02 Thread Alan Thomas
This seems to work up to and including 259 characters in the filename (not counting the file extension) on Windows (98). Alan - Original Message - From: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Monday, April 02,