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Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
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Re: Long Filenames with Applescript


  • Subject: Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
  • From: Nigel Smith <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:13:49 +0000

At 11:26 am -0500 9/3/2001, Arthur J Knapp wrote:
> Right. One other point: Mac OSX supports 255 character file names.
>
> tell application "Desktop"
>
> set name of aFile to "123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567890"
>
> end tell

Not having OS X to try this on, but does it support 255 character file
names, or 255 character *paths*? If the former, is there a maximum path
length?

Nigel


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