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Article #3530OSSI names and portability
From: jimomura
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1986 13:52
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1986 13:52
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I've looked at the OSSI definition modules and they mainly make the
claim of OS independence, however, many people use systems which cannot
cope with the module names. CP/M, MS-DOS and some others are limited
to 8 character names. This is a fairly large chunk of the Modula-2 user
community. In fact, it may be that more users of Modula-2 cannot use the
current module names than those who can. I hope you will reconsider this
for the sake of portability. It's not a major problem, but it puts a
damper on my enthusiasm.
Cheers! -- Jim O.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: OSSI names and portability Message-ID: <1405@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 08:52:07 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.1405 Posted: Sat Nov 29 08:52:07 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Nov-86 09:43:04 EST Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Distribution: world Organization: Consultant, Toronto Lines: 11 Summary: 8 bit limit?