On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, LuKreme wrote: > On 29-Mar-2010, at 07:51, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > > > > Windows isn't the point, anyway. Post-3.1 Windows versions don't > > have an 8-character limit. > > Er... Windows 95, 98, and ME sorta still had that limit (file names > were 8.3, but the system could expand them. However, if your calls > were not accessing the windows APIs, you were still limited to 8.3 > filenames.
Ah, yes. That seems vaguely familiar now. Thanks for the correction. I guess I'd assumed that Vim for Windows would've been written to access long filenames. The download page lists at least a couple versions that don't[1], even for NT/2K/XP. -- Best, Ben [1] http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vim_use+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
