Re: [PLUG] Samba: RH 7.3<->Win98 -- Strange file behavior

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Paul wrote:

> Art Alexion wrote:
>
> > The obvious answer is that there was something in the filename that 
> > win98 didn't like, except that this one one of six tracks downloaded 
> > from a German online label (no extended characters) and all had 
> > similar names except for the track words.
> >
> > Sample name: [lrn005]_-_Name_of_Artist_-_Song_(name).mp3
> Could the filename plus the directory path have exceeded some 
> character length limitation?  If so, one extra character would have 
> been enough to mess things up.

Sounds like a good theory as the offending file did have about the 
longest name in the batch.  My recollection is that DOS permitted 127 
character command lines, and that includes commands and spaces

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