[Pythonmac-SIG] macostools.copy()

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 10:50:09 +0100


Recently, "Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@virginia.edu> said:
> 
> macostools.copy( 'FUCK YOU! you rotten stinking son-of-bitch!', 'xxx' )
> 
> I even managed to make it squeak:
> 
>     (-37, 'there may be no bad names in the final system!')
> 

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!

Unfortunately the error message is not due to some parental guidance
software in MacOS that scans for bad language in filenames, it is
simply due to the filename being longer than 32 (or was that 31)
characters... 
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