Re: Conjecture: why several tech notes failed

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From: Shane Looker
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1987 18:33

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In article <9827@ut-sally.UUCP> brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) writes:
:
:     It looks to me like the three tech notes that failed with CRC all had the
:longest filenames.  Perhaps binhex 4 never thought it would encounter a
:filename longer than 28 bytes (or so; I haven't actually done any tests.)  Can
:anybody corroborate?
:
:Brian

BinHex 4.0 always chokes if the file name is too long.  I'm not sure what the
exact limit is, but it does happen.


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From: shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
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Subject: Re: Conjecture:  why several tech notes failed
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Date: 10 Dec 87 18:33:19 GMT
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