Macintoshes won't see anything with a filename longer than 31
characters if it is being served via netatalk. no warning or name
mangling, it just isn't there.
-James
>
>Bill,
>
>A shot in the dark. I just figured out why some of my data files
>would be invisible. (At least when viewed over the network).
>Somewhere in my set-up of NT's to Linux server with Net-a-talk to
>Macintosh there is a problem with file name length. One can see the
>long file locally but over the network applications and file systems
>cannot "see" them.
>If your working over the network and the associated zoom scan file
>name became "too long" it might be inaccessible.
>A simple problem that had my knickers in a twist.
>
>hope this helps (someone),
>
>paul
>
>
>--
>____________________________________
>Paul Morrison JFB216 paul_morrison@dfci.harvard.edu
>Molecular Biology Core Facilities
>Dana-Farber Cancer Institute http://mbcf.dfci.harvard.edu
>44 Binney Street 617-632-3082
>Boston, MA 02115 fax 632-4814
>____________________________________
>
>
>William H. Vensel <vensel@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>I have been having some problems trying to save .dta files. Sometimes after
>>collecting data I am able to save a .dta file and other times not. When
>>the .dta file is not saved then a short text file stating that there was no
>>associated zoom scan is written. However in the cases when the .dta file
> >has been saved there was no associated zoom scan. Any
> >suggestions are
> >welcome.
> >
> >Bill
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BioResource Center
Computing Facilty
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