Re: Old bug: the 14-character limit.

[Laurent GUERBY <guerby at acm dot org>]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 22:53, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I don't know of any hard limits, but as long as files are unique in
> the 8.3 characters (i.e. first 8 characters of the basename, first 3
> characters of the extension), even DJGPP won't care about the length.

In the case I mentionned, there are multiple files with the same 25
first characters and the same extension, so I guess it's out of DJGPP
league anyway :).

I assume DJGPP constaints are mostly for the C compiler (may be other
languages ?), is this documented somewhere?

Laurent