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Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh [message #6597 is a reply to message #6512]

Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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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'+' '

however one or two don't (I can't remember which).

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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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