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Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?

Subject: Re: long path error in Finder -- known bug?
From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:10:42 -0500
Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous

Olof writes:

[regarding paths longer than 255 characters]

> This script produces a garbage result. A known bug, perhaps?

I'm guessing. This sounds familiar.

Mac OS was originally done with a lot of pascal -- maybe the finder is
trying to return the path and using a pascal string somewhere along the
line with a buffer overflow on long paths.

Michael

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