On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 00:18, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> I doubt whether you would get two IT people in the same department to
> agree let alone a "canonical" string size definition. :-/
>
> My advice would be to choose a sensible size and make it an easily
> changable parameter in a config file somewhere.
Make it 255 bytes. IIRC Neolithic versions of Unix and Windows had a
255 character limit for file names. Besides, it makes it look as if it
was a hardware problem :)
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