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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: OSSI names and portability
Message-ID: <1405@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 08:52:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 29 08:52:07 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Nov-86 09:43:04 EST
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Summary: 8 bit limit?


     I've looked at the OSSI definition modules and they mainly make the
claim of OS independence, however, many people use systems which cannot
cope with the module names.  CP/M, MS-DOS and some others are limited
to 8 character names.  This is a fairly large chunk of the Modula-2 user
community.  In fact, it may be that more users of Modula-2 cannot use the
current module names than those who can.  I hope you will reconsider this
for the sake of portability.  It's not a major problem, but it puts a
damper on my enthusiasm.

Cheers! -- Jim O.