Re: Microstation v7.1 filename and pathname limitation

do_the_dew wrote:
> On Apr 11, 7:16 pm, "julius" <julius.robert.bonifa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>>I quite new in microstation. I am having a problem in accessing a file
>>on a server. I think the length of the pathname is very long (149
>>characters including "\"). I just to know what are the limits in
>>pathname and filename with regards the microstation. I would
>>appreciate if someone could give me an official do***entation
>>regarding this. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> I don't think that 149 characters would break the limit. I can't
> remember the limit, but I think its much more than that.
> Does the name have spaces or some special character in the name?
> 
> There are thing you can do to get around the long path names. Why
> don't you share the folder on the server and then connect to it with a
> drive letter? Or you can add your own environment variable in the
> workspace extensions. For example:
> 
> Suppose the path name was.... c:\abcdefg\123456\hijklmnop\7890\
> 
> You can set the variable as follows:
> 
> MYFILES = c:\abcdefg\123456\hijklmnop\7890\
> 
> Then you can access this folder in micorstation using the variable,
> for example
> 
> ac = MYFILES:details.cel
> 
I thought it was only 32 limit.. unless you define the folder in the 
search path directory configuration.
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