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Title: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Everblue on June 10, 2008, 09:21:03 PM

I have recently formatted my AMIGA 1200 HDD using SFS and put WB3.1.

A strange thing that I have noticed is that:

I can read and copy to my HDD files/directories with really long names...

BUT

I cannot *CREATE* or *RENAME* filenames/directories with long names - if I do, the file/directory name gets truncated.

Is this normal, or there is a problem somewhere?


 :-o

Thanks in advance for help!



E'Blue

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Everblue on June 11, 2008, 05:08:00 AM

Anyone has any idea on above?

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Piru on June 11, 2008, 05:35:09 AM

WB 3.1 limitation. Shell should be fine.

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Everblue on June 11, 2008, 07:16:35 AM

Ah alright... I thought I was going nuts.

Thanks Piru \o/

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Everblue on June 13, 2008, 07:56:46 AM

Ok, I tried to create a long filenamed directory in shell using MAKEDIR... the result? name still gets truncated :(

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: meega on June 13, 2008, 12:51:17 PM

Use shorter names.

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Alexco on June 13, 2008, 04:11:38 PM

Use the LIST command. It should work fine.

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: ChrisH on June 13, 2008, 04:55:49 PM

@Everblue
This sounds like the programs you are using (such as Workbench & most Shell commands) do not support such long file names, therefore they get truncated.

But when (for example) copying long names, they probably just tell SFS "create a file with the same name as this file", without ever looking at the name itself.  Therefore the copying program does not (usually) need to directly support long filenames.

What you need to do is update to an AmigaOS version (and programs, like DirectoryOpus Magellan) that properly supports long file names.  Just don't ask me which one, but OS3.9.2 must do since I am using it.  [Note that Magellan only supports long file names if you enable it using a "secret" option.]

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Raffaele on June 13, 2008, 07:09:44 PM

Quote

What you need to do is update to an AmigaOS version (and programs, like DirectoryOpus Magellan) that properly supports long file names.  Just don't ask me which one, but OS3.9.2 must do since I am using it.  [Note that Magellan only supports long file names if you enable it using a "secret" option.]

There is not only Opus Magellan supporting long filenames in OS 3.1 but also a little program called SRENAME (note the "S" in the beginning) and it could be find on AMINET...

Then Everblue could save the files with name truncated and then rename it with SRename...

Note that it seems to me that 3.1 does not support well long-filenames while 3.5 and 3.9 do it.

BTW... Is it sure about 3.5 supporting LFN?

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Piru on June 13, 2008, 07:36:03 PM

IMO only Workbench should have these issues.

Title: Re: SFS: Is this normal?
Post by: Everblue on June 14, 2008, 08:37:33 AM

[Note that Magellan only supports long file names if you enable it using a "secret" option.]

Ok, how do I enable this secret option :)