On 1/4/06 21:10, "Josh Wisenbaker" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Minor trivia point...John O'Fallon of Rumpus and I, in the dawn of
>> time
>> before OS X, figured out how to have Rumpus on OS 8 deal with > 31
>> character
>> file names. It was a total hack, but it worked really well, (up to
>> 200 or so
>> characters IIRC). Anyone could have done it, but John was the only one
>> willing to "Think Different" and actually do it.
>
> HFS+ has always supported long filenames, but the Classic Finder
> didn't. Other stuff, like the Apple Java Runtime, used long names as
> well, you just couldn't see them.
>
> Still, few people took advantage of it!
The hard part was doing so in a way that wasn't relying on undocumented
tricks that worked for both Macs in the Finder and non-Macs.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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