Re: Long Filenames

[Patrik Schindler]

At 16:43 Uhr -0700 06.04.2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>> > This is going to sound silly, but has ANYONE had any luck with transferring
>> > files with long filenames over to the Mac?
>>  By shortening the names :-)
>Well, aside from that. ;-)

No chance. 32 chars per filename is a Mac limit you cannot override without source 
code from the Finder. :-)

Copy the disk(s) to a ext2 Filesystem and chop the files off to a shorter name with a 
combination of find, mv, cut and so on...

:wq! PoC