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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Saving to DOS diskette==> no can do: "file name too long"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.224103.27975@seer.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <1993Jan3.210849.5709@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:41:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.210849.5709@athena.mit.edu> lones@lones.mit.edu
- (Lones A. Smith) writes:
- > Recently, every time I save a file to a dos diskette, my NeXT harps back
- > that the filename is too long (which seems to mean more than 5
- > characters!). Is there something I'm missing??? This used to always
- > work.
-
- If you are using 3.0 it insists on names being all lowercase, with 8.3
- length. None of the automatic conversion and truncation that 2.1 used to
- do. I have also noticed that installer won't recognise files that are on
- a DOS disk (SoftPC was distributed as a .pkg on DOS format disks).
-
- Paul
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