[GRASS5] Long filename support enabled
Markus Neteler
neteler at itc.it
Mon Jul 18 05:18:40 EDT 2005
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:12:56AM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have enabled now the long file name support (location
> names, mapsets, map names) after fixing lots of hardcoded
> lengths to the definitions in include/gis.h and include/imagery.h.
>
> I did some tests, no problems so far except for some image
> processing modules which still have limited name lengths
> (see other mail concerning file clones).
>
> Please report bugs if long names are still unsupported
> in certain cases (developers please fix directly in CVS).
>
> Length is now 256 chars.
>
I should add the the *text* startup GUI doesn't support
long location names/mapsets yet (maybe never). However,
the command line startup does as well as the graphical
user interface startup.
Markus
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