Re: Portable file names

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

I don't know if this is useful to share, but if only to perhaps confirm the wisdom of 25 characters and .ext as a good constraint despite what the OS might tell you:

I am having some real anamolies in this area with OSX-Jaquar... which I thought supported long files names..

I have files previously saved under OS 9 where elipses were introduced to truncate long subject lines in emails of audio transcripts:

03-09-02 The Ne�ligion - Part 2

now the finder will show elipses under a narrow view but the full file name can be copied out:

8-25-02_2002_Kauai_Innersearch_Day_3,_Part_3_.txt

Where these were file names generated with a "Save as" from Apple's mail.app. defaulting to filename=subject line of msg.

*but* ! any attempt to change a character in the long file name manually in the finder returns an error message that it is too long... even though Jaquar accepted the long file name in a system level openfile process

to make matters even more interesting, but less fun.. libURL replaces the elipses previously introduced in long file names in OS9 with some high ASCII garbage in an FTP download over the LAN:

Long_filenameFront�ĶLongNameEnd.txt

Question: what is the length limitation on a system such as a Solaris Unix server?









On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 05:44 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

1. I recall Ken Ray telling me that a file extension is required on
 some platforms.

Only if you want to map a Rev stack file to an application as a

"document"

(for Windows). Technically it doesn't need to have one for other uses (so
for example if you have a Rev stack that is always next to your

standalone

and read by that standalone but never 2x-clicked).

This is what you wrote me on 7 July:

2) Several of the files do not have an extension (READ ME FIRST, for

example); you need to make sure all files have extensions (even though on
Mac OS 9 they're not necessary, they are on OS X and Windows).

Yes, and that was because the READ ME FIRST file was one that effectively
"asked" the user to double-click it. If you have Rev files that don't need
to be double-clicked (i.e. they're opened from within another program
automatically), you can forego the extension. Personally, I feel that *all
files* on *all platforms* should have an extension for multiplatform
compatibility, but that's just my opinion. ;-)


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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