> On 29-Mar-2010, at 07:51, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> >
> > Windows isn't the point, anyway. Post-3.1 Windows versions don't
> > have an 8-character limit.
>
> Er... Windows 95, 98, and ME sorta still had that limit (file names
> were 8.3, but the system could expand them. However, if your calls
> were not accessing the windows APIs, you were still limited to 8.3
> filenames.
Ah, yes. That seems vaguely familiar now. Thanks for the correction.
I guess I'd assumed that Vim for Windows would've been written to access
long filenames. The download page lists at least a couple versions that
don't[1], even for NT/2K/XP.
--
Best,
Ben
[1] http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
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