Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:31:45 -0700
Ack, at 9/4/01, Ondra Cada said:
Or if you want to use the filenames by some reasonable way. Once upon a time
I've written a dictionary application which stored the word and phrase
definitions in files, whose names were those very words and phrases -- for
the particular app's needs (based on vocabulary size, average size of the
definition etc.) it was an optimal solution.
Which would have been more suited for an array/dictionary of some sort.
Well I do understad that Mac OS programmers could never get used to that,
taking into account those grave limitations it forced upon filenames (what's
some 32 chars, anyway?!?), but since those problems are finally gone, the
last one of them (which is the inability to work properly with different
letter cases) should go, too.
Its a 31 char limit, not 32 and its 27 for disks.
And someone hasn't been reading the Mac OS documentation.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/fl/fl_515.html (search for Str63)
One reason for the 31 char limit is MFS didn't have directories, and
I think HFS has a 255 char limit on paths.
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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
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