Re: Saving to DOS diskette==> no can do: "file name too long"

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From: Paul Lynch
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 22:41

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In article <1993Jan3.210849.5709@athena.mit.edu> lones@lones.mit.edu  
(Lones A. Smith) writes:
> Recently, every time I save a file to a dos diskette, my NeXT harps back  
> that the filename is too long (which seems to mean more than 5  
> characters!).   Is there something I'm missing??? This used to always  
> work.

If you are using 3.0 it insists on names being all lowercase, with 8.3  
length.  None of the automatic conversion and truncation that 2.1 used to  
do.  I have also noticed that installer won't recognise files that are on  
a DOS disk (SoftPC was distributed as a .pkg on DOS format disks).

Paul
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