Re: [Summary-Talk] Long log names

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/13/04 1:16 PM Gregg Luhring (gregg@3wdesign.com) wrote:

>But why is Summary naming the files differently for this site?

Summary doesn't name log files. Summary uses the names that the log files 
already have. Either the FTP server, or the file system, tell Summary 
what the name of the file is, and that is the name that Summary uses for 
that log file. What ever is different about that site, it doesn't have 
anything to do with Summary.

There is one twist to this situation in the Macintosh (Carbon) version of 
Summary. The file system API that Summary is using in the Carbon version 
limits file names to 31 characters. When the actual file name is longer 
than 31 characters, the file system invents a 31 character name to stand 
in for the real name. Summary isn't the only program that does this. The 
WebSTAR FTP server does the same thing, as do several other programs.

Some of your file names look like the kind of name that the file system 
creates to replace long file names, for example 
"voyagerinndc_2004-01-#48DA4.txt". The '#' followed by a hexidecimal 
number is a clue that that is happening.

Jason

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