Re: No more 8-character limit?

On 29-Mar-2010, at 07:51, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>
> 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.

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.

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