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- Subject: Re: LFN
- Cc: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>,
- In-reply-to: <Pine.A32.3.91.960325121427.28794D-100000@hopi.gate.net>
- To: Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 16:38 MST
- From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
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- >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes:
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- Fred> I remember reading a post about a week ago saying
- Fred> Macfilenames are around 30 characters.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- When I programmed on the DEC-10 we had 6.3.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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