On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:07:00AM +0200, Larry le Mac wrote:
:
: So many people are saying that Micro$oft's presence on the Mac is
: important for the survival of the Mac, but I am wondering...
Unfortunately, this is the reality of our times.
[...]
: I then go to save it and Word tells me I can only save the document
: with 31 characters or less.
There are two ways to look at this mess:
1) M$ is being sensitive to the needs of old Mac OS (8-9) users.
The problem is that the old Finder on old Mac OS only supports
filenames up to 31 characters. Because Office force limits
filename lengths to this old restriction, OS X users can still
transport their Office documents to old Mac OS users without
mangling the filenames.
2) M$ is too lazy to implemented 10-year-old API changes.
Apple introduced HFS+ that supported 255-character filenames a
while ago (like a decade ago), as well as new APIs to handle
these longer filenames. I don't know if the old APIs even got
Carbonized for OS X! Anyways, it's just another example of a
giant monopoly not caring about taking advantage of all the
features of OS X and making a better app.
Choose your adventure and pick a path.
--
Eugene Lee
eugene at anime dot net
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