Comment 2 for bug 788626

Failure to comply with the directed wishes AND failure to emphatically notify the user of the problem is an unacceptable error; I only noticed this notification by accident today looking through my 'Paused' list, otherwise I would never have known what happened to these files.

Microsoft DOS is capable of truncating a too-long filename to fit in 8 Chars; even a Jolliet CD will still save the file simply (and abruptly) truncated to the limit. Surely a unix program should be at least as competent with limit conditions :)