It's your mailer that's giving up, I think. The file comes to me with a
name, although the name as displayed has a chevron (I think that what
they're called) in it, which I doubt is a valid character for many file
systems.

Filename as saved on NT: AcornFD-nameLengthFix.20Jul558p .dat

                                                         ^ the chevron (>>)
was just before the full stop.
HTH someone,

Steven Salter, MCSD
Chronicle Technologies Inc.
http://www.chrontech.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: JArchibald at aol.com [mailto:JArchibald at aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:30 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Cc: JArchibald at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [BUG][FIX] Acorn filedirectory name length fubar
>
>
> On 7/20/99 9:20:49 PM EDT, rowledge at interval.com writes:
> <<  (header material)
>  File:  Unknown (187 bytes)
> ------------------------
>  Trivial bug just spotted; default max filename length is
> wrong for Acorn.
>
>  fix enclosed  >>
>
> Tim,
>
> When you attach a file to your Squeak mail, the approach you
> use (at least in
> some cases) transmits a file with no name. With no name,
> mailers assign it a
> name (something like) 'Unknown'. So I (and I assume others)
> have files in
> their download region with names Unknown, Unknow2, Unknow3,
> ..., etc. Of
> course, I can go through and examine the contents of each
> file to figure out
> what it is, and where it came from, and what mail it was
> attached to, and
> assign it a name.
>
> Just thought you might like to know how we're receiving you
> (in addition to the ever popular 'Useful Random Insults').
> Cheers,
> Jerry.
>