Amiga-C (199/223)

From:Jack York
Date:27 Aug 2001 at 17:43:29
Subject:[amiga-c] Re: Saving and reading structs

Hello Sensei

On 27-Aug-01, Sensei wrote:
> Czesc Jack!
>
> Dnia 26-Aug-01, Jack York napisa�:
>
>> I knew that there was a dos imposed limit of 255 + 1 for absolute paths
>> but I thought there wasn't one for relative paths. I'll have to play
>> around with this when I have some spare time.
>
> When DOS talks to file system, it uses absolute paths only... File system
> recives BSTR as dospacket->dp_Arg2 for ACTION_LOCATE_OBJECT
> (dos.library/Lock() function)...

I was thinking that may be the case although it seems to me I have seen some
code or program where longer paths were allowed. Maybe they did some
fiddling with the string before handing it over to dos.

Jack



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