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Aucbvax.4784 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Oct 29 08:14:27 1981 Re: Fixed length identifiers >From THOMAS@UTAH-20 Thu Oct 29 07:24:54 1981 (Sorry if this is one of many, but I haven't seen any other responses yet.)

The reason for 6 character identifiers on many systems is not because the C implementors wanted it that way, but because the assembler, loader, etc. only support 6 characters (sometimes upper-case only). Speaking of name length limitations, does anybody have the 4BSD arbitrary-length names implemented on the 11? (8 isn't enough for me (or 7 - yuk).) =S -------

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