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Received: from genius (genius.rider.edu [192.107.45.5]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA07464 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 06:59:45 -0700 From: COCHRAN@genius.rider.edu Received: from genius.rider.edu by genius.rider.edu (PMDF V4.3-7 #10460) id <01HWNQU8O9QO8Y5HLO@genius.rider.edu>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:00:53 EDT Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RE: Long filenames In-reply-to: <01BA9E79.ECA24980@europa155.europa.com> To: Ed Hurtley <edh@europa.com> Cc: "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com> Message-id: <Pine.3.89.9510200944.A541092444-0100000@genius.rider.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Ed Hurtley wrote: > > >>> Does Executor support long filenames on VFAT drives under Win95? I would > >>> think that the filenames used by Mac files would map well to the Win95 ones, > >>> and this would simplify things quite a bit for me. > > >>> Executor seems to work well for me so far. If I have any major problems I'll > >>> be sure to mention them. > > >> Heres the problem. The VFAT file system is superior to the Macintosh file > >> system. We, with Windows 95 have the 8.3 replaced with 250.5. Now, here > >> is the problem, Macs have 32.4.4! What if you have a longer file name? It > >> will have to shrink. Now, I agree that there should be support for the VFAT > >> system (And beleive a Win95 GUI version of Executor 2.0 or 2.1 should be > >> released). Also, it should then also allow use of the desktop. Now, as most > >> people know, the Windows 95 desktop is stored in two places: > >> Single User System: > > > Actually, no. As far as I know, the Mac file system isn't based > >in the ancient FAT standard as is VFAT. And, doesn't suffer the same > >limitations. I think that this list isn't the place to make such absurd > >statements, don't you? > > He didn't say that the Mac File System (HFS) is based on FAT, he said that the Mac > File System is worse than VFAT. Not to be mean (but you seemed mean) but what on > earth made you think he said that HFS was based on FAT??? All I see is numbers > giving the number of letters in a name!!! (8.3, 250.5, 32.4.4) > > At least re-read the original before you critisize it!!! > You Hurl-ey, He said that the VFAT system is superior to the Mac HFS, which is just not true at all. I don't think anyone else had trouble understanding my point, since nobody else commented on it. Let's dust it off and try to use that old brain, OK? Jon Cochran Rider University