Unzipping files using large filenames.

[HellCoder]

Hi,
I've got a few zipfiles I would like to unzip on my Amiga. Whenever I unzip a file, it extracts all files correctly, but the filenames inside the zipfile are too long. It still unzips them but I can't use it. I can't rename the file and cannot copy it. (I unzip them in RAM:) Is this a filesystem problem?

Any trick to get around this?

[lionstorm]

which amigaos version are you using ? AFAIK 3.9 has long filenames support (with included FFS).
SFS has long filenames support for years.

[HellCoder]

3.9
I don't really understand it, it seems to handle the file as an directory or something.

If I use the tabkey, to find the file quickly, it sees the entire name, but if I want to change the name I get the message:

no more entries in directory

[Thomas]

It's probably not the length of the file names but the characters used which cause the problems.

These characters are allowed in file names but are treated as jokers when used with CLI programs:

~ ( ) | # ? [ ]

You can escape these characters by preceding them with a '.

For example to rename Some File (1987).adf into somefile.adf you can enter

rename "Some File '(1987').adf" somefile.adf

Bye,
Thomas

[HellCoder]

That must be it then. The names do indeed have those characters in them.

I'll try that out 2night. thanks