| On Tuesday, August 26, 1997 8:32 AM, Nathan Day [SMTP:nathand@senet.com.au]
wrote:
> Nathan Day wrote on tuesday:
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> > I haven't been able to get adsyn to work properly yet,
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12PalatinoI've found out what the problem is, for some reason
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'adsyn'1
2Palatino doesn't like Analysis
> files with file names longer than 11 characters is this some UNIX
> thing.
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> Nathan Day
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> nathand@senet.com.au
Nathan, are you aware that you're sending in a non-text format? Looks like
it might be WordPerfect or something like that. A bit HTML-ish. If you're
using a word processor for an editor, you need to save in text format
before sending it as Internet mail. As you'll note in the quoted material
above, it's pretty hard for anyone without the same word processor to read.
BTW, the answer to your question, I think, is that the program was written
to use the old 8.3 file spec, which only allows eight characters of
filename and three of extension. When you try to enter a larger name, its
input editor truncates what you type down to eight plus three characters,
namely the eleven you're getting.
Reid Sweatman
Programmer/Audio Engineer
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