Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Endian wars - really 386 questi Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 89 05:52:14 GMT References: <30@microsoft.UUCP>, <28200266@mcdurb> Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: <28200266@mcdurb> aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes: > Limits make liars about the people who say that UNIX tools, pipes > and backquotes, provide composability of modules. Hurrah for > Richard Stallman and his campaign to make it possible to let > the limit on filename size be infinite! Death to System V's > 14 character filenames! Sigh... We have thousands of source files that were created by people using BSD. Now it's been decided that they have to be compatible (to facilitate future porting) with... OS/2! 8+3 chars, no case distinction, no leading periods. Microsoft: just say Bleah. -Miles