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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