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Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.<br>
As I can recall the DOS limit is 256 characters.<br>
Thus the longer the direcory names the shorter the tree.<br>
Try the simple trick within GEM<br>
make a directory you name 1<br>
go into the directory and make a new one, name it 2<br>
and so make 3, 4 and so forth.<br>
Go until some-one (DOS or GEM) gives up.<br>
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And don't forget to mail the result to the group with mentioning the
DOS version you use with the GEM version.<br>
It will make a nice database.<br>
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Have Fun<br>
Armand<br>
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<pre wrap="">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!
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.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.deltasoft.com/">http://www.deltasoft.com/</a>)
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