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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Summary: wrong reason for long filenames
Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun!
Message-ID: <9402@alice.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 06:35:35 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP> <459@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <459@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
> Long filenames are great. I use filenames all the time to hold
> extra information, which allows database queries using shell meta-characters.


storing information is what a filesystem is for.
if you want to use regular expressions, put the information
in a file. don't complicate a universal mechanism like
the file-system name space just so you can be lazy about
selecting filenames.