On Tuesday, June 22, 1999 1:18 PM, Alistair Riddoch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
: Dennis Blazewicz writes:
: >
: > 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?
:
: This limit (which I thought was 15 chars) was the limit set in the origonal
: minix filesystem which we are using because the code was available, and
: more compact than using the minix2 filesystem.
:
The limit is definitely 14 chars for minix and 30 for minix2, as
someone previously mentioned
