On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 18:15:04 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >I remember distinctly that UID's were limited to 7 characters. >One of the reasons was that UADS had a directory of 8 characters and >the 8th character was reserved for UID's needing more space in UADS >so a character was reserved (shaky here but the 8th character was >either 0, 1 2 etc) to allow more space ... > >UID was 7 characters. >The eighth was reserved for UADS as either 0 thru 8 > I've heard further that while UADS is a very ordinary PDS, updates are performed in place to reduce the need for compress. As a consequence, an existing member can't be extended except by allocating an extension member.
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