Long names for DB

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 7/24/03 11:33, erne at ernestogiannotta at tiscalinet.it wrote:

>> on 7/24/03 10:51, erne at ernestogiannotta at tiscalinet.it wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Erne,
>> 
>>> I noticed that if I assign a long name to the DB file
>>> the DB.Name property returns a shortened string
>>> e.g.
>>> when file name = "My very very long quite useless new database name"
>>> DB.Name returns something like "My very very long quite useless1355632"
>> 
>> I assume it is truncated to 64 chars. Yes?
>> 
>> This is because I use classic FSSpec for file system.
> 
> yep! I thought so
> 
> planning any change to this?
> I mean long names support for 2.x?

Probably, for this we need switch to FSRef.
This also will allow unicode file names ...

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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