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Apur-ee.167 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!tgi Mon Nov 16 10:49:26 1981 Re: Fixed length identifiers In response to the comment about Tenex SAIL's implementation of >6 character identifiers, I'm curious how this could handle identifiers in several different files, since it would be the linker's problem to resolve the names in the individual object modules. Assuming the 2 char suffix to the 4 char beginning of the original identifier would be generated as some function of the earlier characters, I fail to see how this could be made to work RELIABLY in the case(s) where many symbols exist differing in only the 7th or 8th character position. --tgi

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