Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Ok, to be really honest, I can think of one reason - someone will have
to write it as part of SMSQ.
Yes, that and that basically ALL applications would have to be updated
to make use of the new facilities. Difficult to pull off. One more
reason was the cry for staying QDOS compatible, which limits pretty
much what one can do.
... and even QDOS compatible is hard.
One has to be at least three characters under the maximum. I discovered
this when using the network to access files on my HD, wihich increased
the size by three and knocked out a lot of 'paths' on my BBS. I had to
reduce a lot of Phil Borman's default directory names.
The UNIX 'hard' directory names were around when Tony T was developing
QDOS. What a pity he did not mimic that right from the start.
Tony
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