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Re: problems with file extensions longer than 3 letters



On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:10, Szabó Balázs wrote:
> I have a strange problem (at least it is strange to me):
> problems occur when I try to save to floppy or put to server through FTP with 
> files with more than 3 letter extensions. The file appears there, but 
> extension chopped to 3 letters (e.g. gnumeric becomes gnu, html becomes htm) 
> and the file contains nothing (0 bytes) ...

The floppy is probably FAT formatted, not ext[23]. And the FTP server is
probably a Windows server.

Ross
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