Re: OS X Name Extensions
Re: OS X Name Extensions
- Subject: Re: OS X Name Extensions
- From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:54:03 +0200
Hi Marc,
Am Mittwoch, 09.10.02 um 22:50 Uhr schrieb email@hidden:
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As for the character limit on HFS+, I concur -- it's the operating
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system changing the filename length downward, but if the longer names
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are not supported at all OS's which support the filing system (i.e. -
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OS X and pre-OS X), then it's an issue that people may care to be
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aware of.
I agree, as long as the correct limits are taken into consideration ;-)
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Finally, the Stuff-It can handle up to 31 character in pre 7.x
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versions; when I compressed & binhex'd a long file named script in
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version 7 (not as a StuffIt X format), and posted it to my website,
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various people had difficulties downloading the file. Shorting the
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original filename downwards to 28 characters before compression
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eliminated the problem, as did booting back into OS 9.x and
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compressing it with an older version of Stuff-It (6.x in my case).
Hmm, I haven't used StuffIt 7 to compress files yet. Maybe it has a
bug? Have you asked Aladdin about this? My experience is with StuffIt
versions <7 (6.5 and lower) and there it works as you stated. Why did
you need to boot back into 9? Running an older version of StuffIt in
Classic should work as well.
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The StuffIt X format is only useful if you can guarantee that your
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recepient will be under OS X and using Stuff-It version 7 (or later,
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in the future), something impossible on a publically accessible
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website.
Not impossible. Although depending on the target audience it may be
prudent to also offer a .sit with the .sitx. Also it would be prudent
to state somwhere near the download link that StuffIt Expander 7 or
higher is needed to decompress the archive.
I expect the transition to the .sitx format to progress relatively
fast. StuffIt Expander is free after all and it is backward compatible.
That is if Aladdin does a good job of keeping its reputation up by
fixing any upcoming bugs ASAP.
BTW: StuffIt Expander 7 is available for Mac OS 8.6 or higher. And long
names are supported on HFS+ volumes with the new FileManager API
available in CarbonLib b %1.0 (which is available on 8.6) or 9 (though
not used in the Finder so users will see the mangled names). It would
be interesting to find out what happens when a .sitx archive with a
file having a long name is unstuffed to a HFS Standard volume. Probably
something weird.
OK, this is getting OT so this is my last post about this topic to the
list.
TschC<ss (the sz didn't make it through the list and is incorrect
according to the latest spelling reform anyway ;-)
Mike
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Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung
Schulung, Vertrieb
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