AmigaOS3.5 (50/1047)

From:Gregory Donner
Date:14 Oct 2000 at 00:53:40
Subject:Re: AOS35: FFS 25-character file length?

On 12-Oct-00, Jörg Strohmayer wrote:

> You need another filesystem, the limit for SFS is 100 (95 for WB) chars,
> don't know for PFS but probably 102 for WB (107 is the max. length
> AmigaDOS supports).
>
> With FFS only 25 (or less) is possible.

OK; I think (hope?) I have all the major info on this issue in the latest 3.5
FAQ that I just uploaded.

It's too bad that Workbench/FFS & AmigaDOS/dos.library remain inconsistent
regarding long filenames. Although I could imagine that were Workbench to gain
support for 100 characters, icon names might need line-wrapping routines, etc.

Any possibility in this regard for BB2?



Regards,

Gregory Donner

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