10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
8:20 p.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Jun 10, 11:10, Allison J Parent wrote:
Unix started with a 14-char filename limit (and allowed [still does]
characters in filenames tricky to get at from the shell). I forget
which release of BSD extended that to 256 characters (filenames
longer than what my first Xenix would accept as lines), but that is
now enshrined in SysVR4. 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.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
<word. I do not know if ODS-1 (RSX FILES-11)
or the RSTS filesystems
<precede RT-11, but if I had to guess, I would say yes. IIRC, both use
<9.3.
Did you mean 8.3? RT-11, RSTS and RSX-11 were 8.3 as was early VMS and
unice.
RT-11 has always been 6.3, RSX-11 is 9.3 IIRC, and UNIX doesn't have any
fixed format - though early versions had a fairly small limit on name
length (12 chars?). All versions of UNIX allow as many dots as you can fit
in the length.