Re: need util to read long PC filenames

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From: Michael F. Tomkins
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00

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Steve W. Jackson <steve.w.jackson@mindspring.com> wrote:

> In article <34F45039.F23087AC@sfsu.edu>, "Ms. Pac Man" <who2@sfsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> :> 
> :> The problem is that the Mac only reads the old DOS 8.3 filenames,
> :> instead of the win95 long filenames, so with any filename longer than 8
> :> characters, you get something nice and descriptive like SPRITE~1.cc
> :> (should be SpriteClassDriver.cc).
> :> 

That is because that is what is recorded on the disk, win95 really has
only 8 char filenames, it just uses a trick to interpreate them as
longer in the graphical part by using a lookup table.

> 
> There are two ways I know of offhand (cheap and/or free) to do what you
> want.  One is to zip the files on the PC side, then unzip them on your
> Mac.  I've done this with files at my desktop system at work (Win95), sent
> them to myself at home, and unzipped them to find the filenames intact
> (except, of course, I can't handle filenames over 31 characters).  The
> other way is to upgrade to Mac OS 8.1, which has PC Exchange 2.2 and is
> thus capable of recognizing Win95 long filenames on PC disks.

Yes, it saves the name in zip format because different machines have
different lookup tables. The only truly long filenames are in unix (256
char) but I can make somthing inteligible in 31.

C:> ~cngrtsw.n95

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From: michael@narcosis.apana.org.au (Michael F. Tomkins)
Subject: Re: need util to read long PC filenames
Date: 1998/03/02
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