Re: [MiNT] possible silly question.

[Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com>]

OK, understood. It is difficult, or at least takes time, and is
not going to happen. I suppose that everyone else who has an sbin
directory has found another way to move that RPM file around.

And, of course, there is no limit to how long a file name might
be, so if you did make bigger buffers, they would never quite be
big enough.

This did motivate me to look in a Gem function reference to see
if there was any other way to read a directory using an operating
system call, and it seems that Dreaddir() is the only way, and
yes, you are right, it does not work in a useful way for things
that are too long for a buffer.

But I am still waiting for you to stumble over the large detailed
file of the Thing logo, and send me a copy. It is a neat program,
and I want to make a t-shirt of the logo.

Jim

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Thomas Binder wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:54:48AM -0400, Jim DeClercq wrote:
> > Oh, and speaking of Thing, the freemint-sbin RPM file is 37
> > characters long, and a directory list from Thing just ignores
> > it. I had expected to see the first 32 characters.
>
> That's impossible - how should Thing be able to access that file
> later if it only knows part of the complete filename? Furthermore,
> it's not documented whether the Dreaddir() call fills the buffer
> with a shortened filename if it won't fit completely. It's only
> documented that it'll return -64 to tell you that your buffer's
> too small.
>
> Besides, Thing does not silently ignore filenames, it will tell
> you when it had to.
>
> I know people are still waiting for a release of the version of
> Thing that handles longer filenames, but I still lack both time
> and motivation to continue working on it.
>
> And don't bother asking for releasing Thing as open source - I've
> made my decision and explained the reasons more than once.
>
>
> Ciao
>
> Thomas
>
>
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