RE: [boost] 31 character limit for filenames

20 Aug 2004

      | -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org 
| [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Wakely
| Sent: 19 August 2004 18:01
| To: boost@lists.boost.org
| Subject: Re: [boost] 31 character limit for filenames
| 
| Does keeping the filenames short actually enable anything useful?
| 
| jon

But we should also ask what are the benefits of >31 char names.

I would have thought they are fairly small.
Getting up from 8+3 is the big advantage.

Paul

PS There is also an issue with max folder nesting depth - I think this is 8
for ISO CDs.

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