- Strange Windows behaviour

From: Campbell, Robert D (UK Edinburgh) <"Campbell,>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:54:05 +0000

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I tried this suggestion today. The details for
NT are slighly different, but I was able to find
the 'Open Action'. Mine had quotes around the %1,
but not around the ../BlackBox.exe. I added them,
but it made no difference.

Todays behaviour is:
  If I double click on a .odc file it opens BBox,
and labels the Window correctly.

  If I drag it onto the BBox icon it opens BBox,
and labels the Window correctly PROVIDED the name
is short. If it is long it
 1 - Truncates the name
 2 - Converts it to upper case
 3 - Adds something like ~1.

Not a major problem, but irritating all the same.

Cheers

Robert.


>> Harro,
>> That seems to have done it!
>> I added /o and also quoted %1 ("%1") so thank you very much

>> and to the

>> rest of you for suggesting it was the form of the name that

>> was causing

>> the problem.
>>

>> Best regards,
>>

>> Doug Danforth
>>

>> H. v. L. wrote:
>> >> Yes - with Windows NT. And sometimes it opens
>> >> with a 'DOS' 8 uppercase character name rather
>> >> than the proper full case sensitive name. Can't
>> >> isolate what conditions make it happen.
>> >>

>> >

>> > Windows has downward compatibility back to DOS. Thus

>> lower or upper

>> > case letters are treated equal - or not. So, even if you

>> respect 8+3

>> > filenames it depends on your Windo(w)s settings how they

>> are stored in

>> > the hidden filename (on disk you still have 8+3 names,

>> something like

>> > abcdefg~1.ext).
>> > I believe some of the loading "miracles" will disappear

>> if you do the

>> > following:
>> > Open Windows Explorer, go to Tools/Folder Options.../File


>> Types; check

>> > the settings for ODC files. In the 'Extended' dialog

>> highlight option

>> > 'open' and check the associated command; it should read

>> like this:

>> > "E:\Programme\Informatik\BlackBox\BlackBox.exe" /o "%1"

>> [In case you

>> > see some more or less unreadable characters in front of

>> the E: or

>> > behind .exe or around %1 - these are (double) quotes,

>> HEX 22X]. In this

>> > the quotes are the essential part(s), they tell windows

>> to look up the

>> > complete path and filename(!) not only the abbreviated

>> system entry

>> > from FAT(??) whatsoever.
>> > Hope this will help!?
>> >

>> > Regards
>> > Harro

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