-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Blazewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: elks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 3:55 PM
Subject: Brief observation from fiddling


>Hello all.
>
>  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?
>Big enough to be descriptive, but small enough for memory reasons?


I think that this is because ELKS uses the minix filesystem, which uses
filename of 14 characters or less.

-Joseph Dunn

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