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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Bug in SetComment() ... Disk-Validator didn't fix the result
Message-ID: <118@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 06:05:18 GMT
References: <8812210016.AA07200@eden.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Confusion: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA

Gee, and I was just wondering about this!

If someone tries to set a filename or comment that's too long, should you:
- return an error
- truncate it, change it, and return an error, or
- truncate it, change it, and return no error?

Also, how doess one interrogate to find the longest legal filename length?
As part of the error passed back on failure or truncation would be
fine in most cases.
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	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)