Problems with THE FILES and long filenames

Kurt Kaufman kurtkaufman at hotmail.com
Mon May 27 20:32:00 EDT 2002


HangTime wrote:
"...I've run into a problem using both THE FILES and THE FOLDERS.  It
appears that neither supports long file names under OS X.  I'm running
revolution version 1.1.1r1 under Mac OS X 10.1.4.  Either function
returns truncated filenames the same way Mac OS 9 does...."

That might explain the problem I was having saving stacks with long 
names under OS X; the problem disappeared entirely when I shortened the 
name of the offending stack.  See the recent post:
"saving stack files with long names"

-Kurt




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