2008/10/19 George Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way ... I think. > > VAX/VMS has always had file extensions and always used them to mark file > types. It was (is) not possible to have a file without a "." in it. As I > recall you could have about 30 characters before the "." and about 30 > after it (or you could after ~1982 or so).
Ah, cool! :-) I've only used a VMS system for about 10 minutes ;-) >> Today, file extensions can be any length on all major OS, > > Well, not really. Posix has a ~256 character in filename limit. VMS > still has the limits above (~30 character extensions). Thanks for your corrections, I love this kind of trivia :-) _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
