Re: No more 8-character limit?

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote:

> 2010/3/28 Benjamin R. Haskell:
>
> > Are there any systems in common, current use for which this causes
> > problems? (Why would people be using Vim in DOS emulators?)
> >
>
> Why would people be using Windows on servers?
>
> But there is.

Corporations that want support, or who use Windows-only programs.

Windows isn't the point, anyway. Post-3.1 Windows versions don't have
an 8-character limit.

> And there is some privative DOS applications with no support from its
> partners and those code is not available in any manner that are even
> useful for its users and the only way to run them is emulating windows
> or (better if enougth) DOS environment.
>
> And then, if you have DOS environment, you would like to have vim inside.
> ;-)

And I'm saying that's an uncommon enough case that it shouldn't matter
if you require someone using a system like that to rename some files.
They have to rename some files already to get the core runtime files
working.

--
Best,
Ben

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