Subject: Re: 31 Character File Name Length Limit
From: Alistair Riddell (ali@gwc.org.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 10:11:50 EDT
Macs don't truncate Joliet filenames; they don't have the capability to
read the Joliet extensions so they use the ISO9660 names which are pretty
much DOS 8.3 format.
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Alon wrote:
> 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.
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594 Microsoft - because god hates us
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Sun Oct 14 2001 - 03:04:36 EDT