Re: [Pipmak-Users] File name limitations

[Urs H. <ur...@an...>]

Christian Walther wrote:
> Pipmak is currently officially supported on Mac OS X (>= 10.3.9),
> Linux, and Windows (>= 98). I don't know offhand what the limitations
> of these OSes and/or their usual file systems are. If you want to be
> paranoid, stick to something like [a-zA-Z0-9_-] and a maximum length
> of 31 characters. More importantly, make sure not to depend on case
> sensitivity: having two files that only differ in case won't work on a
> case-insensitive file system (usual on Mac OS and Windows), referring
> to a file using different case than what it's actually named won't
> work on a case-sensitive file system (usual on Linux and other
> Unixes).
> 
> On the other hand, if your project is zipped, the file system
> limitations play no role at all. You're only limited by the ZIP format
> itself. (Whose limitations I don't remember either - I guess you
> should find them somewhere in the specification,
> <http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT>.)

Thank you! This helps me very much.