The persistence of DOS-legal (8.3 characters) names in Windows is traceable back to the band-aid way Microsoft used to provide support for longer files names. Internally, the shorter name of the file is the REAL name. That's the one that is used to find the file -- and why, when doing cross-platform projects, you should stay with a DOS-legal naming structure.
The longer name is just eye-candy. When doing cross platform projects, trying to use the longer names will just give you on-going problems and cause it to be unreliable out there among the users. Before I realized this, I once developed a Director project all the way to beta phase that would run on some Wintel boxes and not others. Some configuation obscurities in the WinOS (that I never understood or could find -- what else is new) caused some machines to recognize the longer file names, but other machines would not see them. Go figure. My solution was to go DOS-legal on everything, even the Mac files. It worked great and I've stuck with that technique. My suggestion. Ron Woodland Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: > You don't need to use a CD image to burn a hybrid CD. Use Toast or > something similar on the Mac and it's easy to create a longer CD name. I'm > not sure what the maximum length is, though. As far as Win95 truncating the > CD name... ISO (Windows/PC) CDs' names are always only 8 characters. > Recently a system of extensions called Joliet has become the standard that > allows Windows to display the 8 character names as longer names; even though > they appear longer, they are technically still 8 characters. Evidently > Windows 95 doesn't support Joliet extensions, and thus gives you the > technical name. If you want to support legacy systems, you'll have to > shorten your CD name. > > Charlie Fiskeaux II > Media Designer > The Creative Group > www.cre8tivegroup.com > 859/858-9054x29 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandeep Khomne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:29 AM > Subject: <lingo-l> CD Image and Win 95. > > > > Hello all, > > I need to create a hybrid CD for one of my projects made in Director 8.0. I > am using "CDEverywhere" software to create the CD image. I wish to give the > CD image a name 24 characters wide. > However, when I burn the image it truncates the name to 16 characters. > Further on Windows 95 machine, the OS system seems to truncate the name to > less than 8 characters. As a result of which my program doesn't run since it > uses the name of the CD in the code. > > I would like to have a couple of my doubts cleared: > 1) How can I create a CD image and burn a CD with a name of 24 characters > long? > 2) Why do the name truncate on Windows 95 machine? This does not happen on > OS > 95. > > Any kind of help would be really appreciated. > > Thanks. > > ~ Sandy. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
