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Re: LFN



>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes:

    Fred> I remember reading a post about a week ago saying
    Fred> Macfilenames are around 30 characters.

    Fred> Since Executor supports Win95's LFN, what happens if you try
    Fred> to open & save a Windows file name with 60 characters in the
    Fred> name?

Under E2 the results will vary and Executor is not guaranteed to work
with filenames longer than 31 characters.  Eventually we'll need to do
"name mangling" so that every file on a DOS/Windows/UNIX is
accessible, but that's lower priority.

    Fred> Personally, for me, 8 characters was enough and 30 is more
    Fred> than enough, but someone will eventaully use 250.

When I programmed on the DEC-10 we had 6.3.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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