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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS FSTs, Desktop/Finder, etc
Message-ID: <9907@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Mar 89 15:10:38 GMT
References: <795@orbit.UUCP> <1019@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1019@internal.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
-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...

We don't have the option of using High Sierra on our read/write disks,
e.g. HD20SC.  Therefore there IS a limitation and some of us DO want
it removed.