On 12-10-2010 11:30, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 10:49:18 luigi scarso wrote:
Yes; a good point for three letters for suffix is compatibility with
old OS and perhaps MIME questions.
What? You mean DOS? And FAT?
Maybe we should restrict our coding as well to ascii...
it's not so much dos but the old iso cd standards but nowadays everyone
uses the extensions that permit long names
so, indeed 8.3 is no longer an issue (one reason why I stick to the 8
for context core files is that it works out quite well in lists and such)
Hans
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