Alan Cox writes:
>
> > I have observed from my (admittedly brief) fiddling that elks has a 14
> > character filename limit. Is there a reason that 14 chars was picked?
>
> 14 is the old unix limit. Basically 16 bytes/file - 14 for the name 2 for
> the inode number.
>
> > Big enough to be descriptive, but small enough for memory reasons?
>
> Basically, though the decision was made on a PDP machine in the 1970s
>
> Talking of bugs. I dont really have time to argue with CVS but I've got the
> small fixes needed to make the elks kit build under glibc 2.1 here. They
> are just glitches in include file choice, and also an unrelated thinko in byacc
> (it uses cc not bcc)
>
Could you send me the patches, and I will put them into CVS (When it comes
back up).
Al
