From: Jonathan Guyer (jguyer@HIS.COM)
Date: 20 Feb 00, 17:37 EST
From: Jonathan Guyer <jguyer@HIS.COM>
Subject: Re: "Menu Name Too Large"?
At 12:19 AM -0600 2/20/00, david craig wrote:
>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.)
From
:Help:Bug Reports and Debugging
under "Fixed but not released":
() Menu names can't be longer than 24 chars. Can be problematic
for filesets menu. Maximum is now 31 chars (max length of a file
in MacOS at present).
i.e., Vince has already corrected this in Alpha 8.
>ii) Why wouldn't this have given the same error in Alpha 7.2?
You just dreamed that it didn't?
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