> Certainly the original 14 byte limit was occasionally a nuisance (but > even that was better than 8+3 which was typical), but longer than > 255?
I've run into the 255 limit. On only a few occasions, but definitely more than zero. (About three times, I think.) In my case it is usually files named after URLs; I will typically put (for example) http://www3.telus.net/~bhilpert/tmp/touchTone1969.gif in a file called www3.telus.net%~bhilpert%tmp%touchTone1969.gif. I regularly see (though seldom want to fetch) URLs long enough to blow out a 255-character limit under this transformation. I'm sure other people have their own uses for long pathname components, too, though I don't know of any offhand. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B