Dos unit on Unix

[Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)]

On 21 Feb 2004 at 13:27, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
> 
> > On 20 Feb 2004 at 10:50, Peter Norton wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I use FSplit, FindFirst, FindNext procedures from the
> > > Dos unit in program I'm trying to port for Linux.
> > > This procedures cut off the long filenames to 8
> > > characters (DOS standard) 
> > 
> > This is news to me. Does the Dos unit really do this?
> 
> It may do if you set `__BP_TYPE_SIZES__'. I'm not sure
> (though I wrote the routines ;-) since I've never really
> used them.
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Well, the relevant parts of my "sysutils" unit (http://gnu-
pascal.de/contrib/chief/sysutils/sysutils-20040203.zip) are based on 
Dos unit routines, and they do not truncate filenames under Linux. I 
have not tried the "__BP_TYPE_SIZES__" stuff, but I would suppose that 
if it was defined then long (i.e., >12 chars) filenames would be 
truncated (in a way that they would not really represent the actualy 
filename).

Best regards, The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
web:  http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/