Subject: Re: 31 Character File Name Length Limit
From: Alon (arohter@macalester.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 21:26:53 EDT
This is very true. Which is why most OS's don't have length limits anymore
(mostly). Unfortunately I still have to deal with an OS that does. I'm
hoping the switch to OS X will eventually solve my problem, but for now I'd
settle for a comprimise. A simple solution to the truncation problem is to
do what Microsoft does:
Program Files = progra~1
Programs I Use = progra~2
Programs = progra~3.......etc.
It isn't very pretty I know, but it does work. The names might not be
particularly obvious, but at least they'd be seen on the Mac side.
aLoN
> What happens if the file is only unique after 31 chararcters? You end
> up with 2 file names the same...
>
> Name mangling is actually a difficult problem to solve...
>
>
>> I just started using NetaTalk on my linux box to serve files to Macintosh
>> clients. Everything went well, until I noticed that all files with more
>> than 31 characters in their name length were not showing up at all on the
>> mac clients. I know macs have a name length limit, but I'd like for the
>> clients to at least see the longer-named files, even if truncated.
>
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