From: david craig (dac@MRS.UMN.EDU)
Date: 20 Feb 00, 17:19 EST
From: david craig <dac@MRS.UMN.EDU> Subject: Re: "Menu Name Too Large"? On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, david craig wrote: > Just downloaded and installed Alpha 7.3. I hiked my > Alpha 7.2 AlphaPrefs folder over. Most things look > pretty good, but when it rebuilt my filesets ... and > when Alpha starts up, Alpha complains "Menu Name Too > Large". What does that mean, and what might I do about > it? (And why wasn't Alpha 7.2 complaining about it?) Ok... I took the obvious hint and hunted around my filesets for long filenames. Eventually I spotted a folder whose name displayed incorrectly in the filesets hierarchy, renamed it (taking out a couple of whitespaces between words), and re-built my filesets again -- no "Menu Name Too Large" error. The start-up alert went away, too. (Curiously, the display in the filesets menu is still goofy, though.) Two questions come to mind: i) Why should a perfectly valid Macintosh filename be "too large" for Alpha? Would this not qualify as a bug? (The error message could stand to be a little bit more helpful, too.) ii) Why wouldn't this have given the same error in Alpha 7.2? All I did was copy my AlphaPrefs over to 7.3, so the fileset definitions were identical. (I now dimly recall that this same thing happened to me once before, but I don't remember how long ago that was.) David <http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~dac/>