10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
11:56 p.m.
On Jun 11, 4:20, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Unix started with a 14-char filename limit (and
allowed [still does]
characters in filenames tricky to get at from the shell).
I still have two disks with filenames which include DEL and NUL characters.
I always figured if you couldn't describe
what a file was for in 14 characters, you should be in a different
profession. The current fashion for doing things like including
things like extended version numbers in filenames does not change my
opinion.
Nor mine :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York