David, you are of course right. I am not sure what Bill is thinking. I am still wondering why we are staying with file names 8.3. Come on folks how many characters do you need.
Most MV devs know that vars only need a couple of characters .. I, II, III etc. there is way too much typing going on here Monday, December 26, 2005, 7:21:03 PM, you wrote: DW> At this moment and time, that would be true... But how many unique DW> combinations of 7 characters can be created? 26 to the 7th power? (if we DW> exclude numerics, anyway!) So far, 8 billion+ choices has been enough DW> leeway for us to work within - But it is a hard limit -- we just truncated DW> our Common Group labels to meet the requirement, and moved the 'unique' DW> attributes to the FRONT of the common block labels. DW> DW DW> -----Original Message----- DW> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DW> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett DW> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 9:05 PM DW> To: [email protected] DW> Subject: [U2] UD: Named common DW> Is it true UniData named common cannot have a label longer than 7 DW> characters? Is this a paleozoic joke or is it a PICK basic type thing? DW> "Onward & Upward". :-) DW> Thanks. -- DSig ````` David Tod Sigafoos ( O O ) _______oOOo__( )__oOOo_______ Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954 (source: Eisenhower Presidential Papers, Document #1147; November 8, 1954 The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954,) Chapter 13: "A new phase of political experience" ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
