260-char path length limit in lists for usercmd.ini

[LogicDaemon]

Hi all.

I'm trying to integrate zpaq via usercmd.ini (code below) and custom script (on github).

Problem is that all paths in list files written by Total Commander are hard-truncated to 260 bytes. This is terrible. (yes, bytes, not even characters! Last character is one fit to 260-byte limit, string does not get cut in middle of UTF-8, so at least this is as bad as it could be).

Have any suggestions for workarounds?

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[em_zpaq_add]
menu=zpaq add
cmd=%comspec%
param=/C ""%%COMMANDER_PATH%%\AutoHotkey.exe" "%%COMMANDER_PATH%%\zpaq.ahk" a %UL "%T\""

[em_zpaq_list]
menu=zpaq list
cmd=%comspec%
param=/C ""%%COMMANDER_PATH%%\AutoHotkey.exe" "%%COMMANDER_PATH%%\zpaq.ahk" l %UL"

[em_zpaq_extract]
menu=zpaq extract
cmd=%comspec%
param=/C ""%%COMMANDER_PATH%%\AutoHotkey.exe" "%%COMMANDER_PATH%%\zpaq.ahk" x %UL "%T\""

[MVV]

It is not related to usercmd.ini, it is related to non-Unicode filelists, and you will get same behaviour if you run same command from buttonbar.

http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=46901
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=46927

[LogicDaemon]

okay, thanks, I'll rewrite ini with %WL and make the script aware.

[nsp]

It is not related to usercmd.ini, it is related to non-Unicode filelists, and you will get same behaviour if you run same command from buttonbar.

http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=46901
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=46927

As pointed MVV thye only way is to use utf-16 filelist %WL.

[milo1012]

A bit offtopic, but just out of curiosity:
Is such AHK script for calling ZPAQ really better than using my plug-in?
And yes, I'm aware that TC's wcx plug-ins are quite limited when it comes to using them for user commands.

But the ahk has at least two limitations, which you can hardly work around:
First, adding files will be limited by the max command line length (32k IIRC), because you use:

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Run %comspec% /C "%zpaqexe% a "%3%%arcName%.zpaq" %files% || PAUSE"

Second, zpaq might show a mix of internal and external files in some situations (it will compare a file set on disk to the one in the archive), so you might see/list files that are not in the archive for real.