Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 8.1
From: John Ostrowick (jon@cs.wits.ac.za)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 08:46:54 EST
>> anyone here tried to see what happens to netatalk when it talks to os8.1
>> with its hfs+ ? eg., file name length...?
>
>Although HFS+ does SUPPORT long file names (255 chars) in the filesystem,
>the MacOS itself does NOT support this feature yet. So currently, there
>is no way to get/set a filename longer than 31 chars using the MacOS.
>Since no other OS reads/writes HFS+ volumes at this point, well, you can
>probably see where I'm going with this.
umm, surely the new finder will let you type out 255 character names?
>My bet is, however, that long file names on AFP volumes will require an
>updated version of AFP because the current AFP network requests probably
>don't have room for long file names, either. That probably wouldn't be
>very hard to add to netatalk, but until it happens, Macs (even if they DO
>support long file names) will continue to get their short names.
>
>(I think that's the case -- a developer can correct me if I'm plain wrong
>-- I haven't looked at the code in a while.)
true. (i write lab software for the mac, so i know what you mean about the
255 pascal strings, 63 chars in a fsspec, etc).
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