Re: Getting Yarn to work in vi / PGP problems
Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Thu, 23 May 1996 13:51:21 -0700
Mel Wilson <mwilson@interlog.com> wrote:
|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.
All I know is that it works now in win95. It wasn't pathnames that
was being truncated, but other args. Beats me.. I am not going to
spend another 2.5 hrs looking in to this problem :(.
Gary