It is not a constraint of FP, just a constraint of some older (or poorly set up) servers
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| This problem is, in fact, rarely brought up in this newsgroup, it affects
| very few people. I have used 6 Unix servers from 6 different hosts, both
| paid and free, and have never seen length restrictions in filenames.
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| Ron
| Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
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| | > Shouldn't this be reported as a DESIGN BUG to MS? There is no excuse for
| > ignoring the majority of the world that uses UNIX based servers for webs.
| > Looks like plain laziness to me on the part of the coder/designers. Is
| there
| > an MVP that talks to MS FP Product group that could bring this up?
| >
| > | > > When creating a theme button or banner in _derived FP adds up to 19
| > > characters to the theme and page names. (example
| > > page.htm_cmp_themename010_hbtn_a.gif ). If your host limits file names
| to
| > > 32 characters, this leaves only 13 characters to share between theme and
| > > page names, including the pagename extension.
| > > Edit your theme and save as, using a very short name (one or two
| > > characters). Apply this "new" theme to your pages. Rename your pages
| to
| > a
| > > maximum name length of 7 characters, ( abcdefg.htm ), with extn of
| .htm.
| > >
| > > There is no way to reduce the 19 characters FP adds.
| > > Interactive Buttons (applied using Dynamic Web Templates) may be an
| > > alternative for theme buttons, but you will have to produce your own
| > > banners.
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| > > Ron
| > > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| > >
| > > | > > > When I go to publish, FP2003 creates derived file names that are way
| too
| > > > long for my server. It supports names including extentions up to 32
| > > > characters. My folder names were only 8 characters long and that
| > > generated
| > > > several derived names over 35 characters. My only solution was to
| > shorten
| > > > my folder names to 5 characters, but this isn't going to work on
| larger
| > > > sites.
| > > >
| > > > Is there a way to limit the length of names that FP creates when
| > > publishing
| > > > the site?
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