Re: Getting Yarn to work in vi / PGP problems

Mel Wilson (mwilson@interlog.com)
Wed, 22 May 1996 17:54:05 -0400

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In article <Q37oxsZA/FpB090yn@sco.com>, Gary H <garyh@sco.COM> wrote:
>About PGP, I had a problem with either PGPE.BAT or something else
>truncating all my command line args. I fretted over it for hours,
>then decided to use yarn95. PGP now works perfectly. Why?

How so? AFAIK PGP 2.6.2 for MS-DOS makes the interesting assumption
that all file pathnames are 24 characters or less (trying to economize
on scarce memory?). If on the way to Yarn95 you moved to directories
that made for shorter pathnames that might have fixed something. Could
this be what happened?

Can anybody confirm or deny this thing about 24-character pathnames?
I saw something in the source that suggested it, but I didn't really
follow up.

Regards. Mel.

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