2008/10/19 George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way ... I think.
VAX/VMS has always had file extensions and always used them to mark file
types. It was (is) not possible to have a file without a . in it. As I
recall you could have about 30 characters before the
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
