Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
- Subject: Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
- From: Jim Schram <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:53:36 -0800
At 11:39 AM -0800 2002/03/13, Olof wrote:
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This script produces a garbage result. A known bug, perhaps?
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The result is good up to 14 segments. At 15, when the path goes over 256
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characters, the result becomes garbage.
It's a long-standing limitation of the file system APIs that path names are limited to 255 characters (Mac OS 9 and earlier)... so it's not a bug.
-- Jim
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