Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (1 of 10), Read 84 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: John H Date: Sunday, April 18, 2004 06:28 PM I keep some html files in a directory 'x:\web pages' -- when I open via a right-click SendTo VEDIT I made or from a program called Total Commander (to edit) the filespec is shown in VE as the shortened name 'x:\webpag~\filename.htm' and I can use the file->open more->preview in browser fine. When I open the same file from within VE the long version of the filespec is used, 'x:\web pages\filename.htm' and then the space breaks the URL so the browser tries to load 'file://localhost/D:/WEB' Is this something I need to work around or perhaps a bug?

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (2 of 10), Read 83 times, 1 File Attachment Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: Christian Ziemski Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 02:58 AM John: On 4/18/2004 6:28:19 PM, you wrote: >I keep some html files in a directory 'x:\web pages' -- >[...] >When I open the same file from within VE the long version of >the filespec is used, 'x:\web pages\filename.htm' and then >the space breaks the URL so the browser tries to load >'file://localhost/D:/WEB' > >Is this something I need to work around or perhaps a bug? It seems to be a bug. (Spaces in a filespec is a bug by definition IMHO, but I'm old school...) Please copy the attached macro into your VEDIT\macros directory (make a backup of the original opencurs.vdm before!) and try again. BTW: What versions of Windows and VEDIT are you using? I wonder why the Send-To gives you the shortened pathname. Christian

  Fixed macro to handle spaces in filespec

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (3 of 10), Read 95 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: Christian Ziemski Date: Friday, April 23, 2004 03:10 AM On 4/19/2004 2:58:52 AM, I wrote: >Please copy the attached macro into your >VEDIT\macros directory (make a backup of >the original opencurs.vdm before!) and >try again. I tried to further improve the macro. If you are courageous, you can try the macro version attached to THIS message. ;-) Ted: File_Exist("...", NOERR) fails with "BAD FILENAME" if the filename is illegal like "file://C:/filename.txt". The option NOERR has no effect in this case. http://ziemski.privat.t-online.de/vedit/macros/opencurs.vdm Christian

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (4 of 10), Read 81 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: John H Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 05:15 AM On 4/19/2004 2:58:52 AM, Christian Ziemski wrote: Hi Christain, I appreciate the macro updates! >It seems to be a bug. >(Spaces in a filespec is a bug by >definition IMHO, but I'm old school...) Agreed, I'll take your word on being old school. Not many assembly programmers writing applications these days it seems. :-) Happen to know a fellow named Kim Watt? Anyhow, the mods (both of them) cured the problem. I did notice however if I use a parameter (EG: vpw -s filespec) then the pathname reverts back to short form. >BTW: What versions of Windows and VEDIT are you using? VPW[64] 6.12.1 and VEDIT 6.11.1 Windows 2000, 98SE & 95C I applied some security 'hotfixes' from msnet which were released just a couple days ago.. Don't think I tried the preview in browser before I had patched W2K.

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (5 of 10), Read 84 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: Christian Ziemski Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 05:30 AM John: On 4/19/2004 5:15:34 AM, John H wrote: > >Happen to know a fellow named Kim Watt? No I don't know him. Google found a guy dedicated to TRS80's (in 1982). Is that the one? >Anyhow, the mods (both of them) cured the problem. Good. >I did notice however if I use a parameter (EG: vpw -s filespec) >then the pathname reverts back to short form. That doesn't happen here! And I'm using W2000 too. Strange. If I remember correctly there somewhere is a OS parameter for using long/short filenames. (I don't think it's VEDIT's part here. But I'm not sure.) Christian

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (6 of 10), Read 89 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: John H Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 06:13 AM Morning, >>Happen to know a fellow named Kim Watt? > >No I don't know him. >Google found a guy dedicated to TRS80's >(in 1982). Is that the one? Yes. He is responsible for several programs sold by breeze/qsd aka powersoft that were extremely successful and popular for the TRS-80. I presume breeze was formed around the same time Greenview did. >>I did notice however if I use a parameter >>(EG: vpw -s filespec) then the pathname reverts >>back to short form. > >That doesn't happen here! And I'm using >W2000 too. Maybe I should elaborate on that some, I am specifically referring to invoking VPW from a program called Total Commander, as an external editor. I can't imagine it make a difference but perhaps. Anyhow I place in the external editor field VPW.EXE -S and the path is shortened, w/o the -S it's long. Nothing major, I since have set instances to 1 in vedit and dropped the parameter. Either way it really didn't seem to present a problem. >Strange. If I remember correctly there somewhere is a OS >parameter for using long/short filenames. >(I don't think it's VEDIT's part here. But I'm not sure.) Hmm. I'm a hold out. I only began to use W2K a few months ago. I'm not aware of it's nuts and bolts too much. At any rate, I'll examine this stuff some more later. Tired. I blew my schedule by staying up all night.

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (7 of 10), Read 98 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: Christian Ziemski Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 07:53 AM On 4/19/2004 6:13:35 AM, John H wrote: >>>I did notice however if I use a parameter >>>(EG: vpw -s filespec) then the pathname reverts >>>back to short form. >> >>That doesn't happen here! And I'm using W2000 too. > >Maybe I should elaborate on that some, I am specifically >referring to invoking VPW from a program called Total >Commander, as an external editor. I can't imagine it >make a difference but perhaps. Anyhow I place in the external >editor field VPW.EXE -S and the path is shortened, w/o the >-S it's long. >[...] I now tried it with Total Commander too and there I can reproduce the short names when using parameters like -s or -b when calling VEDIT as external editor. But I still think it has to do with the way TC calls external programs. Perhaps it uses command.com as shell even under W2k and not cmd.exe? (Just a guess.) I'll try to test it with another program which can use an external editor, when I find one. Christian

Topic: Re: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (9 of 10), Read 73 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: Christian Ziemski Date: Saturday, April 24, 2004 05:11 PM John: On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 05:15:00 -0400, you wrote: >Anyhow, the mods (both of them) cured the problem. I did notice however if I >use a parameter (EG: vpw -s filespec) then the pathname reverts back to short >form. In the case you are using the second version of opencurs.vdm (posted here in this thread at 19.04.2004): There is a bug in it which fails to close a temporary buffer in some cases. It's fixed now and the new version can be downloaded here: http://ziemski.privat.t-online.de/vedit/macros/opencurs.vdm Christian

Topic: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (10 of 10), Read 79 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: John H Date: Saturday, April 24, 2004 05:38 PM On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:12:44 -0400 GMT, Christian Ziemski wrote: > There is a bug in it which fails to close a temporary buffer in some > cases. > It's fixed now and the new version can be downloaded here: > http://ziemski.privat.t-online.de/vedit/macros/opencurs.vdm Thanks Christian! Got it. -- John

Topic: Re: File open - difference between VEDIT -> Open and.. (8 of 10), Read 79 times Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit From: Ted Green Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:17 AM At 06:28 PM 4/18/2004, you wrote: >When I open the same file from within VE the long version of the filespec is used, 'x:\web pages\filename.htm' and then the space breaks the URL so the browser tries to load >'file://localhost/D:/WEB' > >Is this something I need to work around or perhaps a bug? I recall it was a bug in Windows 95/98; if you dragged/dropped a filename with spaces onto an icon (such as Word, VEDIT, etc), it opened with the equivalent short filename. I don't see this behavior in Window 2000. I suspect your intermediate program is not setting up the registry entries correctly. Just copy the VEDIT icon to this folder: c:\documents and settings\all users\sendto VEDIT will then appear in the right-click "Send to" sub-menu. Ted.