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> From: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:39:37 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Eli wrote:
> <<What do you think is the limit of a file-name length on your system?>>
> 
> Huh?? What do i think is the limit?
> Are you trying to say, by a rhetorical question, that what i think so
> is probably not right?

Yes.  Most modern file systems either have no practical limit at all,
or have such a large limit that you will in practice never reach it.