Re: NSTemporaryDirectory() && Windows

[Sheldon Gill]

Marc Brünink wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> on my Windows machine NSTemporaryDirectory() returns a string like:
> ~C/DOKUME~1/ADMINI~1/....
> So this is the old DOS representation of names which are longer than 8 
> characters.

That is correct.

Type 'set' at the command prompt on your windows machines and you'll see 
that TEMP is uses 8.3 paths

> How to convert this string to a nice one like:
> c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\..
>
> Does any method exist which implements this conversion?

There is no method in -base you can use for this.

As a matter of interest, why do you want a user presentable path for the 
temporary directory?

> Isn't it a bit outdated to return a MS-DOS 5.x string?

Backwards compatibility with MS-DOS is a Windows feature.


Regards,
Sheldon