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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS FSTs, Desktop/Finder, etc
Message-ID: <1019@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 89 23:47:25 GMT
References: <795@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <795@orbit.UUCP> shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) writes:
>gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>>It's the restrictions on filenames and volume size that we want FIXED!
>
>You find the 15-character filename size limit unreasonable?  I find that
>filenames larger than 15 characters can become rather unwieldy, especially if
>you're passing information between other computer systems.
>
>UUCP: {uunet!rosevax, amdahl!bungia, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!shawn
>INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com

Besides that, the 15 character filename size limit is specific to the ProDOS
file system.  The limit in High Sierra/ISO 9660 is 32 letters.  What I'm
getting at is that there is nothing to be fixed, the limits on filenames and
volume sizes are specific to the file system involved.  ProDOS limits the volumesize to 32k, High Sierra/ISO 9660 is somewhere around 700Mb. This could go
on and on and on...


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