Re: [MacPerl] file length

[Keary Suska <aksuska@webflyer.com>]

> At 18.47 -0500 2000.03.15, Larry Moore wrote:
>> Does the max file name/path length vary with versions of MacOS?
> From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
> No, it is universally 31 chars.

The maximum length of a specified path is larger, maybe 255 chars. I believe
that Apple fulfilled the promise of long file names in HFS+ under MacOS 9,
at least that's what I hear though I haven't tested it. It may require calls
to Carbon, which most apps (including MacPerl) don't do.

-K

"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to
the dead."
    - Thomas Paine


# ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
# ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org