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Aucbvax.6001 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Sat Jan 30 20:46:07 1982 Extended Filenames on UNIX >From gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Sat Jan 30 20:39:12 1982 I heard of plans to do new things to the UNIX file system which would probably find their way into the Berkeley distribution, but unfortunately they were going to keep filenames limited to 14 chars. I don't think the academic researchers fully appreciate the real need for descriptive filenames in a production environment. I'd like to see 80 char. limit. -------

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