Subject: Re: Long Filenames
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 08:08:49 EDT
At 16:43 Uhr -0700 06.04.2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>> > This is going to sound silly, but has ANYONE had any luck with transferring
>> > files with long filenames over to the Mac?
>> By shortening the names :-)
>Well, aside from that. ;-)
No chance. 32 chars per filename is a Mac limit you cannot override without source code from the Finder. :-)
Copy the disk(s) to a ext2 Filesystem and chop the files off to a shorter name with a combination of find, mv, cut and so on...
:wq! PoC
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