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PS: Last year I sent a request to Wolfgang to expand the name allowance for SBASIC daughter jobs to 48 characters (the value chosen by TT for Things etc) but it seems to have got lost. The current 40 char limit is just a little too little to my mind, while 48 allows for the full 42 char file name an...

I dont argue with that, Tobias, I was just pointing out what I thought was a sensible figure that one could rely on. Its up to the individual programmer if he thinks he can make good use of other values, although he should not be surprised if other parts of the system wont cooperate: If you were to ...

<> I have another question: how long a job name is allowed to be? For now all generated executables have the job name "FPC" hardwired. It would be cool to have this set to something more meaningful compile time. But I need to know what's the longest name allowed. Im sure Marcel will answe...

<> On this point of detecting whether a valid directory-device has already been specified, what is the most robust/elegant way to validate this, given the ever-growing list of possible devices that a user may have installed? I guess QPAC has a way to build it's list of available devices for the 'Fi...

Unarguably intentional. Perhaps it was done to avoid a program halting unnecessarily for an unimportant "error". Job already done. Why make a fuss?

I submitted FDEL (DELETE as a function) for inclusion in SMSQ/E v3.34 (I think). This returned error In Use if the file to be deleted was open (which was my main reason for doing it), but did not return Not Found if the file was missing, as the OS doesnt either. I got an unofficial version of SMSQ/E...

NormanDunbar wrote:Ouch!

Hope it gets better soon, and is not (too) painful.

Thanks
A bad lumbago beats this for pain, but it will be pretty inconvenient to be limping around on crutches for weeks, if not months, ahead. Anyway, nice to have a spanking new hip, good for another few thousand miles, I hope..

Actually, it was some days ago, slipping on some treacherous ice in a bad way. I didnt even require a motorbike!

How about super imposing a parallel system that works a bit like QPC's DOS device? Mount old devices somewhere on the directory tree. eg MOUNT 'WIN1', '\somewhere\win1'. Anything under 'win1' has to conform to the old conventions, and can be accessed in standard ways, with a bit if OS trickery, if n...

I havent followed this discussion in detail (due to circumstances), but I had to react to some assertions made: The max file size on a WIN device under SMSQ/E is 2^31b (2Gb), including the 64b header. So the max legal position one could set is 2^31-65. Eg ch = fopen(<filename>): get#ch\2^31-65: prin...