Subject: Re: 31 Character File Name Length Limit
From: Alon (arohter@macalester.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 19:27:48 EDT
This is a very good point. Mac's truncate Joliet cds on their own, so I
guess they could probably handle and truncate long-named network
shares...if they were being shown by the server in the first place. Does
anybody know offhand where in the code the hiding of long file names is?
If I can find the time in the next few weeks I'll have a look, but it'd be
nice if someone knew where it was already.
aLoN
>
> I understood MacOS is suppose to handle it by it self - HFS+ supports
> longer names, but Finder doesn't. I seem to recall some time back in the
> dim dark past, NetAtalk sent longer names to Macs, but some Finder
> versions crashed in response instead of truncating the name.
>
> I guess you could find the bit of code that hides the long names,
> disable it and see how your mac works. Maybee OS9 fixed this problem.
> Classic under OSX beta seems to handle it gracefully.
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