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: Bill Moran (wmoran@mail.iowna.com)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 03:52:04 EST


Carsten Neumann wrote:
> > 27 + '.' + 'M$ style 3 letter extension' ?, thats 31 characters....
>
> Feel like lying naked under the table of a pub - people tumbling around,
> kicking my balls.

To each his own.

> Filenames aren't "suffixed" by afpd when transferred to a Mac.
> If so: why? There would be no need. Netatalk is not samba!

No, but if samba were creating the files, it would look on the Mac like
the "filename" (the part before the dot) was limited to 27 chars.

-Bill



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