Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
- Subject: Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
- From: Bryan Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:49:36 -0600
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Mac OS 9.0 and later have the system APIs to handle long file names (though
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they only work if the file system supports them -- HFS+, UFS, and NFS do; HFS
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doesn't), but only the Mac OS X Finder supports them so far. So, in Mac OS
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X, you can say things like:
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tell application "Finder"
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make new folder with properties {name: "This is a very very very long
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folder name"}
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end
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...and it works just fine. "Info for" still gives you the HFS-mangled name;
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we hope to fix that soon.
Out of curiosity, why wasn't the OS 9 Finder updated to display long
filenames on HFS+ systems? Was it a time issue or a compatibility issue?
- Bryan