Re: [MacPerl] 32 Drop File Limit?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

jwb@olympus.net (John W. Baxter) writes:
>>I recently wrote a little script in MacPerl that changed a bunch of file
>>names to a specific name format and creater.  What I found was, I could
>>only drop a maximum of 32 files on the script!  Does that magic number 32
>>of the MacOS come into play here or is this in MacPerl.
>
>It's not a MacOS limit.  Given time and memory, Finder will happily
>construct Open events with several hundred or a few thousand files in them.

In fact, it's the droplet that is running out of memory. Give it more memory
and it will probably work. One of these days, I'll increase the default memory
allocation.

Matthias

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