Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 5:03 PM -0800 2/7/00, Leica Users digest wrote: >I have Adaptec's easy cd software at work. Its running under Windows NT. I >recently made a cd with a lot of graphics and video. The files worked fine >on my other computer, a Mac 8500. The long file names from NTFS were >another thing. The Mac (running System 7.5.5) only recognized the 8.3 dos >filename format thus the names were truncated. I don't know if newer Mac >OSs recognize the NTFS filenames. That indicates to me that you've made a DOS format CD volume, not a Mac OS 'HFS' format volume. The Mac OS' Windows/DOS filesystem translation module only translates at the DOS level, which is defined as 8.3 character filenames. Windows maintains a rather complicated meta-layer which presents the long filenames to the user and maps them to the DOS 8.3 volume directory (FAT) structure. >Interestingly when I email files between Windows NT or 98 and Mac machines >the filenames come across just fine. That's the mail client and server at work. Filenames for attachments are fixed up by the email client and transmitted using the MIME and SMTP protocols, so the WinNT long file names are preserved at a Mac recipient, and vice versa. Godfrey