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

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From: Paul Verket
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:56

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Paul Lynch (paul@seer.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: 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...

3.0 also won't overwrite files with the same name on the DOS disk, sigh...

Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)

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