On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:28:01 -0700, George Davidovich <free...@optimis.net> wrote: > Sorry, but while I agree the MICROS~1 pejorative can be a bit juvenile > and uncalled for, your assertion that 8.3 filenames are a thing of the > past is incorrect.
Furthermore, I think it wasn't a "gain of comfort" MICROS~1 (sorry, can't resist) inventet. As far as I remember, CP/M had 8.3 filenames too, and that was prior to DOS. (It only hadn't directories). > Obviously, there's reasons for that, but this is one of those situations > where an admonition of "Go ahead and laugh -- it's funny!" might be > appropriate. Finally. By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to be unique within the first 6 (six) letters? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
