Subject: Re: Netatalk and Long Filenames
To: NetBSD/mac68k <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Iggy Drougge <optimus@canit.se>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/21/2001 16:34:21
Donald Lee skrev:

>OT again...

Sorry. ^_^;;

>I _have_ to comment that this talk of 32 char filenames does not sound right.

>I could easily be wrong about this, but...

>My recollection of the bowels of MacOS is that that filename in HFS is
>a 32-char "pascal" string.  A "pascal" string has, as its first char, a
>length byte.  It's stored this way on disk, and means that the limit is
>31 chars.

Perhaps some of the Japanese subscribers could enlighten us how this is done
on KanjiTalk systems? Are double-byte filenames even allowed, and if so, are
they restricted to sixteen double-byte characters in length?

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