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Groxx
on Sept 22, 2010
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Don’t use “My” in UI elements.
Oh, to go back to the 8.3 days... 11 ASCII characters is enough to name your files, right?
barrkel
on Sept 22, 2010
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You can have north of 200 characters, so long you don't mind \ every 9 characters or so.
sophiebits
on Sept 22, 2010
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12 characters, if you count the dot.
z92
on Sept 22, 2010
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Which OS was that?
cschep
on Sept 22, 2010
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I think by 8.3, he meant DOS 8.3 ?
rlm
on Sept 22, 2010
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8.3 refers to: 8 chars, a dot, 3 chars, which was the limit for filenames.
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