Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 8.1
From: Rob Newberry (rob@eats.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 10:12:32 EST
> umm, surely the new finder will let you type out 255 character names?
nope.
(and I'm not surprised, either -- it took dropping Copland and buying NeXT
before we got MacOS 8, which is really not much more than a new,
multi-threaded Finder. It'll take Apple a while to revise the OS to
support 255-char filenames, including the Finder. They have to deal with
the issue that the Finder has space for those names, but no other
applications no how to deal with them, so they'll need name-mangling --
otherwise, no app could see the long names (or if they tried to open them,
they'd crash). this is a big mess for Apple to deal with. don't think
it'll happen too soon.)
Rob
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