Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!eecae!nancy!umix!tardis!pepe!shane From: shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Conjecture: why several tech notes failed Message-ID: <407@tardis.cc.umich.edu> Date: 10 Dec 87 18:33:19 GMT References: <9827@ut-sally.UUCP> Sender: usenet@tardis.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker) Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 17 In article <9827@ut-sally.UUCP> brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) writes: : : It looks to me like the three tech notes that failed with CRC all had the :longest filenames. Perhaps binhex 4 never thought it would encounter a :filename longer than 28 bytes (or so; I haven't actually done any tests.) Can :anybody corroborate? : :Brian BinHex 4.0 always chokes if the file name is too long. I'm not sure what the exact limit is, but it does happen. Shane Looker | "He's dead Jim, shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu | you grab his tricorder, uunet!umix!pepe.cc.umich.edu!shane | I'll get his wallet." Looker@um.cc.umich.edu