Mac & windows file name sizes

I am using Dreamweaver 8 on the Mac for most all of my
commercial web development. I have a G5 connected to a local
network where I also run a Windows 2000 box as a web server to test
with. in a new project which I took over from another company they
have page names such as
new-england-lodging-2-doubles-1-twin.html
I downloaded the site and can see it all hunky-dorey on the
Mac. however when I try & upload these files to my testing
server, they won't go. I get the following error message:
new-england-lodging-2-doubles-1-twin.html - error occurred -
An error occurred - cannot put
new-england-lodging-2-doubles-1-twin.html. The specified path does
not exist.
of course the path DOES in fact exist. in addition I can
create a file with this name on the PC side with no difficulty.
however when I do so the file name is displayed on the Mac side
thus:
NEW-EN~2.HTM
obviously this is not at all useful!
any thoughts or workarounds for this? use of these file names
is a requirement on this site for SEO reasons. I would prefer not
to have to do the development on the PC for a variety of reasons.
thanks

> of course the path DOES in fact exist. in addition I can
create a file
> with
> this name on the PC side with no difficulty. however
when I do so the file
> name
> is displayed on the Mac side thus:
>
> NEW-EN~2.HTM
That typically occures when reading a windows formatted disk.
How did you
download the images to the Mac? Did you just grab then from
the FTP server?
If so, the file names SHOULD have come across OK.
-Darrel

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