Getting around DOS filenames

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 35207
interpreted = N
texte = Here is the deal. We moved our server to an NT IIS 4 server from a Mac. We have a feature that lets people upload photos. We do this using the [upload] in WebCat.We were using Graphic Converter to scale the images to 300 x ? pixels, but since we moved to the NT server well...Anyhow, I found, thanks to some kind person on this list, another application that does this on NT (Image Alchemy). It is really fast - it is a DOS application.The files that are uploaded are associated with a record in a database using [cart] which is somewhere between 10 - 13 characters long. This is a problem since DOS uses 8 as its max file name size the application can't find the long file names.Anyone have an idea how I could work around this without creating a scenario where I would get duplicate file names? I could write the orig. filename to a database use a shorter one to process it and then rename it back when I move it to its final home... only thing is [cart] is my only safe bet for a unique file name.I guess I could write a database of temp numbers that gets used and not reused, but I don't really want to have to do that since it seems kinda like the long way to do this.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks Charles------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. ATTN: John Re: Getting around DOS filenames (Charles Kline 2000)
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  3. Getting around DOS filenames (Charles Kline 2000)
Here is the deal. We moved our server to an NT IIS 4 server from a Mac. We have a feature that lets people upload photos. We do this using the [upload] in WebCat.We were using Graphic Converter to scale the images to 300 x ? pixels, but since we moved to the NT server well...Anyhow, I found, thanks to some kind person on this list, another application that does this on NT (Image Alchemy). It is really fast - it is a DOS application.The files that are uploaded are associated with a record in a database using [cart] which is somewhere between 10 - 13 characters long. This is a problem since DOS uses 8 as its max file name size the application can't find the long file names.Anyone have an idea how I could work around this without creating a scenario where I would get duplicate file names? I could write the orig. filename to a database use a shorter one to process it and then rename it back when I move it to its final home... only thing is [cart] is my only safe bet for a unique file name.I guess I could write a database of temp numbers that gets used and not reused, but I don't really want to have to do that since it seems kinda like the long way to do this.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks Charles------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Charles Kline

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