Re: Mathematica with Windows 95
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg2730] Re: Mathematica with Windows 95
- From: skyluke at mbox.vol.it (Luke)
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 23:01:42 -0500
- Organization: Italia Online
rpiyaket at ucsd.edu (Ram Piyaket) wrote: >Hi, >I was wondering if the latest version of Mathematica (2.2.3) >can handle a long filename under windows 95. >I appreciate any information you might give. >Thanks. > >Ram Hi Ram (by the way, you need it a lot to use Mma!!!), I currently use Mma 2.2.4 (student ver) under Win 95 and, up to now (I've bought Mma since a few weeks), I can't say that Mma handles long filenames(LFN) correctly. Infact Mma loads correctly any LFN file with "<<" command but, strangely, refuses to load any related LFN files. That's an example notebook I tried: << hyper`Hyperbolic` Get::noopen: Can't open hyper`Hyperbolic`. $Failed As you can see, Mma opens neither Hyperbolic.m nor any LFN files Hyperbolic.m refers to. Of course I have to say that the directory where all those LFN files are in is the $Path variable of Mma, and also that Mma doesn't this behaviour with normal 8 chars filenames (I've already tested that) indeed. I posted a message to Mathgroup and WOlfram support too. From the 1st I was told that it could be an installation problem, while I'ven't had any replies from Wolfram technical support since 2 weeks!!! In my opinion it's not an installation problem but it's related with the way Win95 saves LFN: win95 links LFN with a DOS name in which the 1st 6 chars are the same of LFN and then appends a ~ plus a progressive number. That "~"+number is the unique reference as DOS filename; but Mma used to search for a DOS filename (of course Mma doesn't see native LFN cause it's a win16 app) with the 1st 8 chars are the same of the LFN, not 6! That could be the reason why Mma seems fail to find the files. I open that could be helpful! Anyway if you have some additional information, please let me know; thanks! Sincerely Luca Specchio