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Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA09692 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:20:24 -0700 Received: from VORLON.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01305; Fri, 20 Oct 95 12:19:37 EDT Received: from localhost by vorlon.mit.edu (8.6.10/4.7) id MAA22862; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:20:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199510201620.MAA22862@vorlon.mit.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: COCHRAN@genius.rider.edu Cc: Ed Hurtley <edh@europa.com>, "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com> Subject: Re: Long filenames In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:00:52 EDT." <Pine.3.89.9510200944.A541092444-0100000@genius.rider.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:20:15 -0400 From: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > 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? Oh dear....I didn't want to get into this. However, the Mac filesystem is uniquely limiting. In it's current instantiation, I am told, there is a rather low hard limit on the number of files that you can have on a Mac drive. Such that if you have an 8 GB drive and your average file size isn't around several dozen MB, most of your drive will be wasted. --Jered jered@mit.edu