Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > At two bytes per character, you get 127 characters in a filename. > That's wider than the standard 80-column display, and far wider > than the 28 or 29 characters that an "ls -l" has room for. In a > GUI file manager or file dialog box, you'll have to scroll sideways. > In a web browser directory listing, you'll almost certainly have > to scroll sideways. Must of this even applies to Windows tools. > > In other words, this is user error. Somebody thought that a filename > was a place to store a document, probably a README file. What next, > shall we MIME-encode an icon into the filename?
I've got a music file where the artist name is 113 characters long, if I use an abbreviation. > Fix: the vfat driver should use the 8.3 name for such files. Let's port that to ext3! I wantet the system to rename my files into abcd~123.ext for all my life! NOT! -- If at first you don't succeed call in an air-strike. Friß, Spammer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
