SFS: Is this normal?

[Everblue]

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

[Everblue]

Anyone has any idea on above?

[Piru]

WB 3.1 limitation. Shell should be fine.

[Everblue]

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

Thanks Piru \o/

[Everblue]

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

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[meega]

Use shorter names.

[Alexco]

Use the LIST command. It should work fine.

[ChrisH]

@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.]

[Raffaele]

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?

[Piru]

IMO only Workbench should have these issues.

[Everblue]

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

Ok, how do I enable this secret option