[GEM Development] New features for GEM

[Armand Colleye]

Ben A L Jemmett wrote:

>>This is an interesting bug.  I was not aware of it.  Ben?  John?  Why does
>>it exist, and can it be fixed?
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>The Desktop has at least one hard limit on paths -- they can't exceed a
>certain number of characters (64?).  I don't *think* that limit is any lower
>than the limit DOS itself placed on path names back when GEM was written,
>but of course modern systems can have deeper directory trees.  I seem to
>recall a limitation in that folders can only be nested 8 deep -- again, I
>don't recall this being more stringent than DOS originally, but ideally
>should be addressed.
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We've had that discussion a long time ago.
As I can recall the DOS limit is 256 characters.
Thus the longer the direcory names the shorter the tree.
Try the simple trick within GEM
make a directory you name 1
go into the directory and make a new one, name it 2
and so make 3, 4 and so forth.
Go until some-one (DOS or GEM) gives up.

And don't forget to mail the result to the group with mentioning the DOS 
version you use with the GEM version.
It will make a nice database.

Have Fun
Armand

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>>By the way, Ben, did you ever get time to
>>look into your new desktop release?
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>I did a bit of playing around with things, but didn't come up with anything
>major worth releasing.  Hopefully I'll feel more inspired soon!
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>I have quite a bit of mail to catch up on, on this list and several
>others -- I've been away for a fortnight (a week working, a week's holiday)
>and there was a lot of traffic in that time.  I'll be able to reply to the
>other gem-dev messages after lunch with luck.
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>Regards,
>Ben A L Jemmett.
>(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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