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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames
Message-ID: <1991Feb01.231125.16323@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:11:25 GMT
References: <290@sps.com> <20711@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Feb1.003532.15719@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1991Feb1.003532.15719@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>"Silliness"?  I still fail to understand why everyone wants to be able to
>create files with humongous names --- I don't enjoy typing 14 character file
>names (but don't want to decrease that size, there *is* a tradeoff here), the
>30-plus-character names I've seen in use on some BSD systems don't appeal at
>all.

I don't like humongous names either, but 14 is a bit too short.  Especially 
when you consider that two are lost for the typical source file extension
and another two are lost for the source code control system (either SCCS
or RCS) - thereby leaving only 10 characters for the file name.  This I have
found to be a little too short sometimes, but like anything else 
you can live with it.

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