Re: Why do long names (char > 27) not created through atalk not show up over atalk?


Subject: Re: Why do long names (char > 27) not created through atalk not show up over atalk?
From: Matthew Geier (matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 20:58:41 EST


Cliff Crawford wrote:
>
> * Chris Harwell <charwell@digitalpulp.com> menulis:
> > hi,
> >
> > When a file with a long file name is created in linux (in this case via scp)
> > it doesn't show up over atalk. If a file with a long name is created over
> > netatlk it does.
> >
> > Anyway around this?
>
> Not really, Mac OS has a 32-character limit on filenames. So you have to
> make sure the filenames are shorter than that for them to show up.
>
> (If the cutoff you're experiencing really is at 27 characters, like it
> says in the subject, and not 32, then I guess it's not the Mac OS
> filename limit that's causing it..I don't know what could be wrong in
> that case.)

27 + '.' + 'M$ style 3 letter extension' ?, thats 31 characters....

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