Floppies from wintel machines with long file names get truncated on the mac
pre OS8.1 -- don't ask why, I don't know why -- somehow the mac could only
read the "DOS" part of the name. The long file name on Win95 is an ALIAS --
the DOS name still exists and is the "real" name.
Kathy
At 6:03 PM -0700 5/31/98, Suzanne wrote:
>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.
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