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Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
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Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting


  • Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
  • From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:24:43 -0700

And the fact remains, files on a mac are never explicitly referred to by path, always a number.

Ack, at 9/4/01, Finlay Dobbie said:

On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 06:31 pm, Rosyna wrote:

I think HFS has a 255 char limit on paths.

I was under the impression that it was more than that, something in the order of 1024 (which most people shouldn't encounter under normal usage). I thought that winblows limited it to 255 and that was another limitation of it compared to the mac?

-- Finlay

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Rosyna Keller
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