Re: NSTemporaryDirectory() && Windows

[Marc Brünink]

On Mittwoch, Mai 11, 2005, at 11:50 Europe/Berlin, Richard 
Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 2005-05-11 10:13:55 +0100 Marc Brünink <mbruen@smartsoft.de> wrote:
>
> > > > Isn't it a bit outdated to return a MS-DOS 5.x string?
> > >
> > > Backwards compatibility with MS-DOS is a Windows feature.
> >
> > Nevertheless GNUstep should handle this. Either by changing
> > NSTemporaryDirectory() or by hacking openStepPathFromLocal and/or
> > stringByStandardizingPath.
> > I guess the  task  of GNUstep is to encapsulate all this awful 
> > operating
> > system functions. So GNUstep have be to hacked.
>
> I don't understand your reasoning here.
>
> The NSTemporaryDirectory() function is supposed to supply the name of 
> a temporary directory that your program can use to store its own 
> private temporary files in.  You are not supposed to make any 
> assumption about where this temporary directory is.  This path is not 
> (and should not be) user-visible in any way,  and so as long as it 
> works there is, as far as I can see, no reason why it should look like 
> anything in particular (certainly code should not rely on it being any 
> particular directory).
>
> What exactly is the logic of wanting it to be 'c:\Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen\Administrator\' ?
> If you want to store files in 'c:\Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen\Administrator\.', I would have thought you should be 
> using that as the file name rather than using NSTemporaryDirectory()

uh oh. You misunderstood me. Actually I was just too lazy to type the 
whole path. So I just typed
c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\..
and I thought I was clear that this isn't the whole path (take a look 
at the points at the end of the path :-)

However I simply want:
1. A NSTemporaryDirectory() funtions which doesn't return 8.3 paths, 
but real cool nice and fancy long path names.
or if you think GNUstep should be 8.3 compatible
2. A method of NSString which converts 8.3 pathnames to long ones.

regards
Marc