Old bug: the 14-character limit.

Laurent GUERBY guerby@acm.org
Fri May 23 21:34:00 GMT 2003


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



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