Re: New Era V3

Andrew Lawrenson wrote: > > I can't say why this doesn't work for you, but it works fine for me - I > regularly use filenames over 8 chars long, as well as projects and > components with long names (longest filename I can find at hand is 13 > chars - cashbksummary.4gl ) This is with NT4 using NTFS drives. > > Maybe there is something wrong with your installation of MSVC 5, rather > than New Era? > > Andy > > -- > - Remove nospam. from address when replying by email - > > Jamie Nash wrote in message <6kjifl$6hb$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > >Heres a little point, be warned that although v3 of NewEra is 32bit, runs > on > >95 and NT etc etc. It will allow you to create file names for WIFs, 4GLs > >and 4GHs upto 255 characters........ However, it won't compile because the > >compiler can still only handle upto 8 characters. As I've just spent > nearly > >to hours finding out. I had a file called usermaint.4gh and when trying to > >compile kept getting a -4010 error. Saying that the file could not be > >found. But I know the filename and path I was using was correct. This > >error appears in another header file which includes usermaint.4gh. > >Finally I decided to compile usermaint on its own, but the compiler kept > >'ABORTING'. After a while I went to read the .err file created but could > >not find it. Why? Because the file it had created was usermain.err, it > was > >ignoring any characyer past the 8th and therefore could not find > >usermaint.4gh it was looking for usermain.4gh. > > > > <snip> > > > >Ta for any help > > > >Jamie > >Ditto here. Although I haven't used names as long as 13, I have several longer than 8. Pat