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- Reply-to: "Alexander Newman" <anewman@rna.bio.mq.edu.au>
- To: "Ian Viemeister" <vmeister@ios.com>
- From: "Alexander Newman" <anewman@rna.bio.mq.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 15:09:48 +1000
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- On Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:20:15 -0500, Ian Viemeister wrote:
-
- snip...
-
- >I guess when saving to the unix filesystem, the filename is passed
- right
- >thru, but when saving to an hfv, it uses the real HFS filesystem.
- >
- >>There's either one of three things wrong here:
- >>
- >>a) "FAQ- Running Executor under FreeBSD" is NOT a valid Mac filename,
- and
- >> either Word and/or Executor was at fault in NOT telling me "hey,
- that's
- >> not a good filename" when I saved it.
- >
- >That sounds like it
-
- snip...
-
- >Sounds like this would happen on Linux, FreeBSD or Win95 (does E/D
- under OS/2
- >support LFNs?}
-
- Unfortunately DOS under OS/2 is still restricted to 8.3, and the use of
- a file-system translator such as AMOS only appears to work from a
- natively-booted DOS (but that may have changed recently). The bottom
- line is therefore 'no'. As reported by others above, the 31-char Mac
- filename is the theoretical upper limit. (I believe Mac files can have
- a '0' or null filename - how the Mac filesystem copes with that I have
- no idea.)
-
- Cheers,
-
- Alex Newman
-
-
-