WARNING: Old style truncated data level name.

Mamu,

The 'old style' file names were generated by UniVerse when native file systems only supported short file names - for example the DOS format of 8.3 with an 8 charavter file name and a 3 character extension. The message suggests that this file came from a  system which truncated the names and where needed (e.g. dynamic filed) created nested sub-directories, each of the 8.3 format with (sometimes) the last actual file being named as a query '?'.

Please check the name of the VOC pointer and the file paths in the VOC, comparing with the physical file name of the dictionary and all of the multi-files. If there are indexes then also check these.

The old 8.3 rules need no longer apply and as long as LONGNAMES ON has been used then can rename the files by copying or renaming as you wish.

Hopefully this helps,

Regards,

JJ

Hi Manu,

As best as I can tell, that warning message is only generated during a create.file command. I was able to generate the message if  a subfile by the name MARLA.TRAE.104 existed in the multi-level file directory.

CREATE.FILE DATA FORTRAE,MARLA.TRAE.104TEST2 2 11 1
WARNING: Old style truncated data level name "FORTRAE/MARLA.TRAE.104" detected.
Creating file "FORTRAE/MARLA.TRAE.104TEST2" as Type 2, Modulo 11, Separation 1.

I beleive the "Old style" truncation is a reference to a time when the file was simply truncated at 14 characters rather then the new style of truncated the file and adding a sequence number to the end of the file name.

Are you able to check the contents of the multi-level file directory. And as noted, I'm not seeing any errors on opening the files. Only can get that error when creating a new data level file which has the same first 14 characters.

Thanks,

Neil