Maintain Long File Names on OSX?

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

using

  "answer file" and choosing a long file name in OSX returns an  
"encrypted" truncated version, even though the long file name is very 
clear in the finder:

"encrypted"

e.g. a file on disk

fwd/ resistance against vegetarianism.txt

returns:

/Users/katir/   Working/  Editorial/  Letters to the editor/Oct-Dec 
03/Fwd: resistance again#BC342.txt

Now, if i put this into a variable to store "gThePath" and later do this

put fld "incomingLetter" into url ("file:" & gThePath)

The file name on disk becomes:

Fwd: resistance again#BC342.txt

?? Is there a solution for this?

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

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