On 12-10-2010 11:30, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 10:49:18 luigi scarso wrote:
Yes; a good point for three letters for suffix is compatibility with old OS and perhaps MIME questions.
What? You mean DOS? And FAT? Maybe we should restrict our coding as well to ascii...
it's not so much dos but the old iso cd standards but nowadays everyone uses the extensions that permit long names so, indeed 8.3 is no longer an issue (one reason why I stick to the 8 for context core files is that it works out quite well in lists and such) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------