Re: Long filenames
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg2144] Re: Long filenames
- From: claudio at wizard.hip.berkeley.edu (Claudio Fahey)
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:58:24 -0400
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
larry_kearney at appsig.com (Lawrence Kearney) wrote: >> Hi groups, >> >> has anyone any troubles with long filenames in Win 95 & Mma? E.G. when >> you unzip a file called Hyperbolic.m , under Win95 its lonf file name >> remains the same but its DOS name becomes HYPERB~1.M; and when you try >> to load it by issueing <<Hyperbolic.m , you got a "$fail open" >> message. Any way to solve this little problem ? >> THanKS!!! >Get a Mac where long filenames are part of the OS, not a bag bolted on to >the side. If you use Windows NT or OS/2, you can use packages with long filenames if you use HPFS or NTFS. However, since the frontend is still 16-bit, notebooks must still have 8.3 filenames. Claudio Fahey