> Digital Research was created in the 70's to market > CP/M, and should hold the first patent for that > convention... if they had the foresight to patient such > a benign aspect of their creation!
The article doesn't say specifically, but I strongly suspect that the patents are not on 8.3 filenames per se. I suspect that the patents have to do with the mechanisms by which an OS with long filenames supports legacy software that only understands 8.3 names. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
