On 9/14/05 4:04 AM, Jerry didst favor us with:
> Brief historical note: 35 years ago the limit for filenames in Unix was 14
> characters (not sure about the path limit). I remember the mixed feelings ofÂ
> excitement and horror when I heard about the new 255 character limit
> introduced in BSD in about 1982 - What would we do with all those extra
> characters? Would people start storing their documents in the filenames
> instead of the files?
Not quite, but almost. ;-) Sometimes I save interesting news photos off of
cnn.com, and I'll use the picture's caption as the file name. Those can be
close to 200 characters long.
Larry
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