Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
- Subject: Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:25:19 -0800
At 16:37 -0800 3/9/01, Chris Nebel wrote:
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> Out of curiosity, why wasn't the OS 9 Finder updated to display long
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> filenames on HFS+ systems? Was it a time issue or a compatibility issue?
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Considering how stressed some of the Finder people started acting, I'd
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guess it
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was a time thing. Finder 9.1 *is* smart enough to preserve long file
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names when
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it copies things, it just won't show them to you.
It could also have been partly an API thing. The long name calls might not
have been out early enough in the cycle to avoid the time thing for the
Finder crew. And yes they could roll their own, but that would just mean
re-engineering later to use the regular stuff...there are better things to
do with the time.
I was disappointed.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA