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Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh [message #6586 is a reply to message #6512]

Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00

A. Scott Denning
Messages: 5
Registered: July 1996

Junior Member

Mark Hadfield wrote:
>
> mallozzi@ssl.msfc.nasa.gov wrote:
>>
>> I just tried to port a large IDL package that runs fine on VMS, IRIX,
>> Sun, and Linux to Win95. It appears that IDL does not recognize the
>> long filenames that Win95 uses....
>>
>> I was using v3.6, but a colleague told me this also happens under 4.0.1
>
> Yes, it does occur under 4.0.1. Under NT (and presumably under Win95 also)
> many routines seem to accept long file names if you append a space on the
> end, eg,
>
> OPENR, 1, 'alongfilename.dat'+' '
>

How about long procedure names? I would think this would be even worse
than the long data file names. I have a huge idl application I've been
working on for almost 3 years under various flavors of unix and on the
Mac (> 12,000 lines of code). Lots of procedure names like
"define_colors.pro", "set_contours.pro", "widget_window.pro," etc that
don't conform to DOS limits.

If I want to port this to NT, will I have to go through and change
everything to 8-character names?! What a nightmare!

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		IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: mallozzi on Tue, 09 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: Mirko Vukovic on Mon, 15 July 1996 00:00
		RE: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: mallozzi on Sat, 13 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: thompson on Fri, 12 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: Peter Mason on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: thompson on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: A. Scott Denning on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00

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