The 14 character limit did exist in Unix versions 6 and 7. Version 6 was used as a basis for the BSD releases. Version 7 was the basis for what became System 3 followed by System V. Long file names I think came out for the first time in BSD 4.3 (or possibly 4.2). Unlike MS DOS, which had a limit of 8 for the file name and 3 for the extension, the file extension was (and is) a convention, and the dot (.) could appear anywhere in the 14 characters. Filenames beginning with a dot are uninteresting, and not generally displayed by ls. On 20 Aug 2002 at 16:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The 14-character filename limit *did* exist in some early Unix or Unixes. > I do knot know exactly which ones, but it is an oft-cited limit when > worrying about "greatest common factors" for heterogeneous systems.
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