gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:

>Huh. That makes me wonder if these >32 character files are actually
>visibile to the finder, and then hidden by it, but could be seen on
>the Mac OS side using a tool like ResEdit. Might be an interesting
>experiment for the curious.

That is how MacOS 9 (and upper) works; you can set the file name > 31 chars using a special tool (the file is suffixed like #1244 or
so) but the Finder is not able to let you type more than 31 chars and do not displays them.
Works only on HFS+ formatted hard disk.

But this is only available for PPC users, not m68k users, hence not for us (even if PPC is nearly 8 years old) :(

Cheers,

Emile
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