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Subject: Re: Software patch...
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 15:07:15 EDT
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From: Raymond Bates <RBATES@ISIB>

This patch will not quite work.  A version 3 only Interlisp makes
an assumptions (in both C and Interlisp) that files names and
directory names are short.  Interlisp scans an entire directory
just to see if an file exists.  The worst thing that might happen
is that Interlisp would overwrite some memory because it passed a
"short" string down to C and C wrote a "long" string.  This could
mess up quite a few things.  The best one could hope for is that
Interlisp would ignore files or directories that were "long".

/Ray