14 character limitation in filenames
Chip Salzenberg
chip at tct.uucp
Wed Feb 13 01:02:00 AEST 1991
According to rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn):
>allbery at NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>> ... drop the business of using prefixes/suffixes and just use
>> separate directories. ".vcsdb/foo.c".
>
>No, that's not a solution, unless you're in an isolated corner of the world
>where you can use your own tools (or customized tools) ...
So modify RCS 5.5 -- it's available as source.
>... I was pointing out that you can't deal with enormously long file names
>by having some magical shell that does filename completion. It may work in
>a small corner of the world, but it doesn't generalize.
So use Bash -- it's available as source.
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