Subject: PC-Pine 4.21 attachment path size limit?

From: pine-info <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:44:28 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

DISCLAIMER:
Just joined, but searched the archives and did not find this
mentioned.  If it has been discussed, please point me to the
thread.  Thanx.

Can anyone confirm that in PC-Pine v4.21 (on WinNT) the fully
qualified path for attachments must be less than or equal to 79
characters?

I am not able to attach a file if the fully qualified path is 80 or
more characters.  i.e.

x:\123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012.ext
x:\directory1\directory2\directory3\directory4\directory5\directory6\file12.ext

both attach fine, but 

x:\1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123.ext
x:\directory1\directory2\directory3\directory4\directory5\directory6\file123.ext

Don't.

If others can confirm this, would the developers please extend this to
at least 255 is not longer.

Thanks.

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Derek Diget

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From: Pine-info <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:52:21 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Dear Pine developers:

Since I am seeing talk about a pending release of Pine 4.30 and
have not heard anything about my post of Oct 4th
<http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/2000.10/msg00078.html>, I
was wondering if this bug (IMO) has been noted and corrected.

Thanks.

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Derek Diget
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From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:20:22 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> was wondering if this bug (IMO) has been noted and corrected.

Hi Derek,

We are aware of this problem, and it is on the list of things to consider
for a future release.  In 4.30, you will be able to use the "^To Files"
dialog to attach files whose name contain more than 80 characters (which
you couldn't do in 4.21), but you still will not be able to type in
attachments longer than that.  I think that the dialog will be sufficient
for most cases (and hopefully yours), but those who will wish to manually
type in file paths of longer than 80 characters will still be stuck.

Jeff

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Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing   University of Washington

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From: Pine-info <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:56:19 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

On Oct 19, 2000 at 20:20, Jeff Franklin wrote:
=>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Pine-info wrote:
=>> Since I am seeing talk about a pending release of Pine 4.30 and
=>> have not heard anything about my post of Oct 4th
=>> <http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/2000.10/msg00078.html>, I
=>> was wondering if this bug (IMO) has been noted and corrected.
=>
=>We are aware of this problem, and it is on the list of things to consider
=>for a future release.  In 4.30, you will be able to use the "^To Files"
=>dialog to attach files whose name contain more than 80 characters (which
=>you couldn't do in 4.21), but you still will not be able to type in
=>attachments longer than that.  I think that the dialog will be sufficient
=>for most cases (and hopefully yours), but those who will wish to manually
=>type in file paths of longer than 80 characters will still be stuck.

First, thanks for the reply.

Let me see if I understand your post.

In v4.30+ user should be able to attach files using the "^To
Files" dialog with a path (and filename/extension) over 80 characters,
but you will not be able to type straight into the attchmnt line the
the same file (path/filename/extension over 80 characters).

(I attach through the "^To Files" dialog anyways. :)

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From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:12:38 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> the same file (path/filename/extension over 80 characters).

Exactly.  You understood me correctly. The 80 character thing is a
limitation of pico, which currently has no way of handling the typing of
characters longer than the screen's width for something like attachments.

> (I attach through the "^To Files" dialog anyways. :)

I thought so. :)

Jeff