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posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 23.04.2024, 13:03

> I was thinking - this burdens the library or OS with
> the need to do pattern matching (filespec), and
> quite possibly not everyone would agree on which
> wildcards to use.
>
> In addition, the library would need to make a decision
> on whether to match case or not.
>
> On more thing is that it requires fixed space to be
> allocated for the resultant data. If this had been
> done right from the start, there would be nowhere to
> store a long filename, and not enough space to do
> so either.

Several OSes (including OberonOS, which had no subdirs) used filenames limited to 32 max chars. (I may also vaguely be remembering ISO 9660 here.) That seems like a good amount for reasonable use, well at least "better" than 8.3. (I guess 160 kb floppies might disagree, but those were quickly upgraded to 360 kb.)

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