At 11:56 AM 05/31/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Barry, I've never experienced the problem you've described. Instead, the
>only time I've experienced such problems was in the opposite scenario:
>transferring Mac files to PC. When I copied Mac files to a PC-formatted
>floppy, the floppy itself truncated the names. A PC-nerd friend told me
>that even though Windows 95 PCs can read long file names, the floppies
>can't.
Suz, interesting. But that problem I can understand.
And Sandy Miller also says
>Mac OS can read up to 32-character long file names, with a 3-character
>extension. The problem usually lies with copying files from the Mac to
>the PC, which limits file names to 8 characters with 2-character
>extensions! You shouldn't have a problem (unless your file names exceed
>32 characters!)
In the case I described, the problem occurred when a Mac went to copy long
(10-18 characters, _not_ more than 32) Win95 file names from a PC floppy.
It could copy the files, but it shortened the file names.
Could this Mac user have been using an old Mac OS that didn't handle the
Win95 file names correctly? Or has the Mac OS always (say for the last 10
years or whatever) been able to handle Win95 names.
I'm puzzled by this.
Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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