Re: Filename change to fit the "only one dot" limitation on DOS

Mark Alexander
1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 03:14:24PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> Just out of curiosity,
> why isn't it a problem that the generated filenames are longer than 8 chars?

DOS allows long names; it silently truncates everything after 8.3.
What's left of the filename after this truncation has to be unique and
not have "illegal" characters.