Re: Don't make .el filenames more than 13 characters long

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1991 01:38

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>>>>> On Mon, 8 Jul 91 21:03:40 BST, Tim Bradshaw
>>>>> <tim@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk> said:

>>>>> On 8 Jul 91 14:12:22 GMT, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM said:

>Dan> In fact, in the whole 18.57 distribution, only one file,
>Dan> sun-cursors.el [is longer than 13 characters]

> Of course, sun-cursors.elc would seem to only matter on systems (Sun)
> that can handle longer filenames.

Tim> yeah but they only have to pass through a machine which won't and it's
Tim> all mangled (happened to me long ago) -- not everyone gets emacs 1st
Tim> hand.

Good point.  Richard, you might also want to note in the lisp manual
the danger that even copying an occasional long file names file via an
intermediate short filename machine causes, hence another risk of long
filenames.  I'm assuming that one doesn't want to always worry about
cpio/taring every occasional file.

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