Thanks Tom, I'll follow your suggestion.  But what's bugging me about EZCD
is that it's stopped doing something it did before, ie identifying and
specifying the long files plus giving me the option to truncate them.

I have the latest Nero on my other machine but I wasn't aware it did that.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Turak" Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Joliet hassles with EasyCD


> My version of Nero warns me of Full Pathnames that exceed 64 characters,
> including all the folders and subfolders, not just the filename itself.
>
> I would try two easy tests.  First, make a test file with a very long name
> and test to see if EasyCD still detects it.  Second, move some of your
real
> files to a shorter path, and see if EasyCD accepts them now as legal.
> Tom Turak
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:26 PM
>
> Thanks Paul.
>
> Yes, the full path length would easily exceed 64 characters.  But I don't
> think the path length is included in the Joliet 64 character restriction;
> AFAIK it's a filename restriction only.
>
> The annoying thing is though, that the EasyCD program used to tell me
WHICH
> filenames had exceeded the 64 character limit, and then offer to truncate
> them.
>
> Now, it doesn't do that - it only tells me that there's been an
> infringement.  Which I don't believe is true - I've checked every one of
the
> 200 or so files and none come even close to 64 character filenames.
>
> Durned annoying!

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