30 Jan
1998
30 Jan
'98
7:21 p.m.
Hotze wrote:
Well, a 15 character limit's not bad to me at all. Actually, I've gotten
used to 8 with MS-DOS, which I still use when I want something DONE.
Actually, I was wondering what the heck Microsloth was thinking when they
made it 8 characters. And, the fact that in the next 5 FULL RELEASES
(Counting only the .0's, 2.0 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0) nothing was done about
it.
They didn't have to think -- the filename was taken along with most
of the command set from CP/M. And it screws up Unix databases that
have to maintain compatibility with our brain-damaged users, even
though Unix is no longer limited by our old 14-character limit on
filenames (and even then, you had a choice where the dot went and
could use more than one).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.