Limit on Soup Name Length
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Limit on Soup Name Length (12/10/96)
- Q: What is the maximum number of characters I can use for a soup name?
A: With the Newton OS 2.0 release, soup names, like index data, are limited to 39 Unicode characters. If you attempt to create a soup with a longer name, the OS will create a soup with only the first 39 characters of the longer name. We recommend you avoid this truncation, because typically the truncation removes some or all of your registered signature, and the resulting name will not be guaranteed unique.
You can still provide longer/prettier names for users, by using the soupDef mechanism and putting the long name (typically without appended signature) in the 'userName slot of that data structure.