Hi, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> Well, not really. Posix has a ~256 character in filename limit. VMS >> still has the limits above (~30 character extensions). >> > > Thanks for your corrections, I love this kind of trivia :-) Robbins and Beebe's Classic Unix Shell Scripting (O'Reilly, 2005) should be on your list then. The authors dilligently tested every *IX, *UX and derivative they could lay their hands on, just to know whether it was the spirit or the letter of POSIX that was being respected in each case. Strangely gripping.
I think we have a consensus that files must have extensions. That's good, because ccHost does not ship with any accommodation for extensionless file types. Ben _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary