Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
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Gawd! When is PTC going to get with the 21st century and raise the damn characters limit on filenames? In fact, why have a stupid limit at all?!





RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
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RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
I bump into the 31 character limit all the time because we start the part and assembly names with a descriptive phrase followed by a drawing series number followed by another number then possibly a suffix or a sequence number. I can not tell you how many times I have hit the left arrow key while counting the number of characters then had to figure out a way to squeeze a couple of characters out of the file name and still have something recognizable.
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RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
On the serious front, though, just adding 10 extra characters would make a world of difference in giving abbreviations more room to be built in. Just 10. And I would probably only usually need 5 of those.
Beats having to name files with an ID number as the filename, then having to cross-reference against a list of descriptions. I'm not a frikkin aerospace company that has a gazillion parts to deal with.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
I rarely run into the limit since I've been trained by PTC for so long. However, I do run into a similar but unrelated limit with my hard drive backup. There are a few paths and filenames that get kicked back in my backup log because they exceed some limit. Can't recall what it is, but it's a nuisance. One of these days I've gotta go restructure those folders to shorten the path. Of course it's not something I'm really concerned with or else I would have done it long ago.
-tg
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RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457994/what-cha... indicates a NULL wasn't allowed either as it's a string terminator.
From https://josephscott.org/archives/2007/02/things-th...
Control Codes : Most Unix systems are kind enough to allow just about anything in a file name. Unfortunately this means that control codes (except for NULL) are allowed. To do include one of these is just plain evil. I really don’t want to hear the BELL beep as part of the file name. Sure it’s funny once, after that is pure, unrefined annoyance.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
The case limitation is to separate out in-memory references from on-disk references. "bracket.prt" is on disk; "BRACKET.PRT" is in memory.
Both of these are likely to have been created as performance/speed related approaches back when 30MHz 32bit processors cost $1000.
In databases, fixed width fields are still preferred for performance reasons.
Maybe if it ever gets really broken they'll change their mind, but for the time being there are enough characters:
A-Z, _, 0-9 (maybe I've missed one or two) => 31 positions of 37 choices = 31^37 = roughly 1.5E55 possible names, which should be enough for a while.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
PTC planned on the potential to make assemblies of hundreds of subassemblies with each having thousands of different parts, limited by memory. Unfortunately PTC can't ship two different products, one that is fast with short names and one that is slower for long names. Even having both in the same code means having to debug twice as much. Smart coding is doing as little debugging as possible.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
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RE: Filen name length STILLLLL 31 characters? My rant for the day.
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