barry -- the mac has always had long file names.
windows has only had them since august 1995. but that name is an alias
-- the REAL name is still a DOS name. that's what the Macs have been
reading on the DOS disks.
now I don't know if it was a problem with mac's recognition software or
the way MS aliased the names (did the alias go along onto the floppy so
the mac could read it? i know it was a pain storing files on a DOS
server -- got the exact same truncation plus CAPITALIZATION which was
lots of fun with UNIX serving up the html files).
but the problem has been resolved with OS 8.1. wintel long file names
are now readable off of disks.
Kathy
Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>
> 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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