This is almost not a ruby question… But I need a ruby solution!
How to convert a 8.3 dos paths to its fully expanded version. For
example, how to translate:
C:\CYGWIN\HOME\MYFULL~1\MONROE~9.ALT
to
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/My Full Name/Monroe-Tyson.alt
The basename of this last path is relevant to me and while MONROE~9 is
unusable. cygpath -u, from the cygwin distribution, doesn’t expand the
8.3 names. It merely changes the \ into /. How fancy!
Any solution out there?
Guillaume.
Guillaume Marcais wrote:
This is almost not a ruby question… But I need a ruby solution!
How to convert a 8.3 dos paths to its fully expanded version. For
example, how to translate:C:\CYGWIN\HOME\MYFULL~1\MONROE~9.ALT
to
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/My Full Name/Monroe-Tyson.alt
The basename of this last path is relevant to me and while MONROE~9 is
unusable. cygpath -u, from the cygwin distribution, doesn’t expand the
8.3 names. It merely changes the \ into /. How fancy!Any solution out there?
There’s always the “ugly” way – don’t say you heard it here.
Something like:
path = cmd /c dir #{file}.split(“\n”)[6][-1]
That’s untested.
Hal
Guillaume Marcais wrote:
This is almost not a ruby question… But I need a ruby solution!
How to convert a 8.3 dos paths to its fully expanded version. For
example, how to translate:C:\CYGWIN\HOME\MYFULL~1\MONROE~9.ALT
to
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/My Full Name/Monroe-Tyson.alt
The basename of this last path is relevant to me and while MONROE~9 is
unusable. cygpath -u, from the cygwin distribution, doesn’t expand the
8.3 names. It merely changes the \ into /. How fancy!Any solution out there?
There’s always the “ugly” way – don’t say you heard it here.
Something like:
path =
cmd /c dir #{file}.split(“\n”)[6][-1]That’s untested.
I guess I’ll settle for sliglthly improved:
path = cmd /c dir /b #{file}
The /b is the bare format: only the name.
Thanks all.
Guillaume.
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 20:17, Hal Fulton wrote:
Hal
Guillaume Marcais wrote:
This is almost not a ruby question… But I need a ruby solution!
How to convert a 8.3 dos paths to its fully expanded version. For
example, how to translate:C:\CYGWIN\HOME\MYFULL~1\MONROE~9.ALT
to
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/My Full Name/Monroe-Tyson.alt
The basename of this last path is relevant to me and while MONROE~9 is
unusable. cygpath -u, from the cygwin distribution, doesn’t expand the
8.3 names. It merely changes the \ into /. How fancy!Any solution out there?
There’s always the “ugly” way – don’t say you heard it here.
Something like:
path =
cmd /c dir #{file}.split(“\n”)[6][-1]That’s untested.
I guess I’ll settle for sliglthly improved:
path = cmd /c dir /b #{file}
The /b is the bare format: only the name.
Thanks all.
Guillaume.
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 20:17, Hal Fulton wrote:
Hal
Guillaume Marcais wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 20:17, Hal Fulton wrote:
Guillaume Marcais wrote:
This is almost not a ruby question… But I need a ruby solution!
How to convert a 8.3 dos paths to its fully expanded version. For
example, how to translate:C:\CYGWIN\HOME\MYFULL~1\MONROE~9.ALT
to
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/My Full Name/Monroe-Tyson.alt
The basename of this last path is relevant to me and while MONROE~9 is
unusable. cygpath -u, from the cygwin distribution, doesn’t expand the
8.3 names. It merely changes the \ into /. How fancy!Any solution out there?
There’s always the “ugly” way – don’t say you heard it here.
Something like:
path =
cmd /c dir #{file}.split(“\n”)[6][-1]That’s untested.
I guess I’ll settle for sliglthly improved:
path =
cmd /c dir /b #{file}The /b is the bare format: only the name.
Thanks all.
Guillaume.Hal
If you wanna see ugly, add this to your list of possible holiday destinations:
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don’t know if this’ll work on cygwin.
On native Win98+, it expands the full path.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
require ‘Win32API’
GetLongPathName = Win32API.new(‘kernel32’, ‘GetLongPathName’, ‘PPL’, ‘L’)
f_short = ‘D:\PROGRA~1\BORLAND\CBUILD~1\PROJECTS\CONNEC~1\CONNEC~1.CPP’
f_long = “\0” * 260
flen = GetLongPathName.call(f_short, f_long, f_long.size)
puts f_long[0, flen]
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
#=> D:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder4\Projects\ConnectLog\ConnectLog.cpp
daz