ATTN: John Re: Getting around DOS filenames

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texte = Nevermind. There is a special .exe for long file names. DUH =) Thanks for the help.- Charles>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/-------------------------------------------------------------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:

Nevermind. There is a special .exe for long file names. DUH =) Thanks for the help.- Charles>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/-------------------------------------------------------------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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