Barry,
>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.
Are you *sure* the file names were long on the floppy? In other words,
could the floppy itself rather than the Mac have truncated the name?
>
>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.
To my knowledge, the Mac has always handled long file names (one of the
reasons for those "Windows95=Mac85" bumber stickers us arrogant Mac users
used to sport on our cars). However, since I've only been using Macs for
six years, I could be mistaken.
Suz
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