New Message: Re: [Mac OS X] Serving long file names

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Address: http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$14443

By: Brian Ablaza (bablaza at stargroup1.com)

/As long as you use the name exactly as returned by the system, it references the full long file name/

Just want to add some caveats to that. It references the specific i><file/, not necessarily name. Because of the way the name is constructed...

..two files with the same long name will have different short names (since they have different inode numbers)

..changing a file's long name could still result in the same short name (if the change is far enough in the name), or

..changing the file's long name could produce a different short name (if the change is near the beginning of the name

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