Wengier or anyone familiar with 4DOS, do you know what the maximum
length of a long filename is?
I have been using Wengier's start.exe to open various PDFs with long
filenames. When I tried opening one whose name had 146 characters,
nothing happened. If I give the same command in a CMD.EXE window, the
file opens. I'm assuming that the difference is that the maximum
filename length is shorter in 4DOS than it is in Windows. I tried to
find the answer in the help facility and on various 4DOS sites, but
came up short.
The workaround in a 4DOS batch file, by the way, is to use the SFN
"variable function":
start.exe %@SFN["really long file name"]
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Carl Distefano
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