RE: OS X Name Extensions
RE: OS X Name Extensions
- Subject: RE: OS X Name Extensions
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:50:25 EDT
Thank's Mike. I have no problems being corrected... As with Rob, I stumbled
into a couple problems with version numbers being misinterpretted as file
extensions, and just invented my own solution. The offical solution you offer
(.scpt) is much cleaner and nicer.
As for the character limit on HFS+, I concur -- it's the operating system
changing the filename length downward, but if the longer names are not
supported at all OS's which support the filing system (i.e. - OS X and pre-OS
X), then it's an issue that people may care to be aware of.
Finally, the Stuff-It can handle up to 31 character in pre 7.x versions; when
I compressed & binhex'd a long file named script in version 7 (not as a
StuffIt X format), and posted it to my website, various people had
difficulties downloading the file. Shorting the original filename downwards
to 28 characters before compression eliminated the problem, as did booting
back into OS 9.x and compressing it with an older version of Stuff-It (6.x in
my case). The StuffIt X format is only useful if you can guarantee that your
recepient will be under OS X and using Stuff-It version 7 (or later, in the
future), something impossible on a publically accessible website.
Tschu_ :)
=-= Marc
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