From: Steve Rindsberg on
In article <u40A4kqrKHA.1796(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Verizon news groups wrote:
> David,
>
> Thank you for your response; you just saved me a whole lot of work. Who ever
> heard of an 8 character limit on file names?

Until Windows 95 came along, that's what we had to work with on PCs/DOS.

And I believe one of the CD burning standards requires 8.3 filenames in order
to be able to guarantee compatibility with the widest possible range of
systems.



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