Subject: Re: Please help: long filenames not showing up
From: Ryan McBeth (ryan@mobiusnm.com)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 07:12:28 EDT
Andy,
I hate to give you this answer, and someone may know
something else that will disprove me, but as far as I can tell, there
is no way to truncate files. You have to let your windows and linux
users know not to go over 31 characters.
Ryan
>Hi, I'm new to the list and netatalk, but I've fallen in love with it!
>
>The only thing I can't figure out right now is how to get files with
>long filenames to show up. I know that MacOS has a limit of 31
>characters for files, but some of the files I'm accessing are longer
>than that. Is there a way to get netatalk to truncate or morph the
>filenames so they at least will show up?
>
>I appreciate any help on this.
>
>Andy Nguyen
>anguyen@alumni.utexas.net
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