From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 8.3 filename restriction Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:48:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87odfcggvl.fsf@jurta.org> <873awlidih.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <871wc51any.fsf@jurta.org> <878x6a6ktw.fsf@jurta.org> <871wc15m2b.fsf@jurta.org> <87lk9ylkbb.fsf@jurta.org> <87hckk9uoa.fsf@jurta.org> <87abqcrq9p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <471BE5D3.3050007@gmail.com> <87y7dwq7x9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odepv21n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ir4wjcev.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <47203C01.4070909@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193348938 11383 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 21:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 23:48:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlAZW-0007aF-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:48:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlAZN-0004SE-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlAZK-0004RX-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlAZI-0004Qz-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlAZI-0004Qu-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlAZC-0000OQ-MW; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-118-51.inter.net.il [84.229.118.51]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id DYO99811 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:48:35 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Kenichi Handa on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:45:34 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81722 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:45:34 +0900 > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org > > To my understanding, 8.3 name restriction actually means > that all filenames (in the same directory?) must be > distinguished by the first 8 (or 7? 6?) characters. 8 > So, idlw-complete-structtag.el is ok unless there's another file > that starts with "idlw-complete". Is it right? Yes, except that even another file that starts with a "idlw-complete" would be okay, if its extension (the part after the period) is not ".el". > And, I remember that there were another filename restriction > which limits the total length to 14 (or so) characters for > some other system. Does anyone remember the detail? That's SysV limitation; see `doschk', which will show both.