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  • From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>
  • To: lforrestster AT gmail.com, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] long filenames 24
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:15:31 +1030

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:53:08 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

> Not being a M$ person, I don't have any idea what you are talking about
> there.

It's not MicroSoft, it is a feature common to most Disk Operating
Systems, at least for the IBM and IBM clone computers.

The filenames are limited to eight characters with a three character
extension. Files with long filenames have a shorter version attached to
them to be compatible with this system.


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