Re: file naming length conventions

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:38, Jim Dory wrote:
> I just did some googling trying to find a good argument for restricting
> the length of user filenames. MS Word allows you to save a document with
> a name using the complete first sentence of the doc and some users are
> doing that. Ugh!
>
> I haven't really found a good webpage resource yet that puts anything in
> layman terms, or even a necessarily good reason to avoid long names now.
> I sense that it is not good, but I don't really know how to put it in
> words. Figured some sysadmin types out there might have some compelling
> arguments or thoughts. One problem I have thought of is using wildcards
> to sort or otherwise process files becomes broken rather quickly with
> these huge names, but the users in many cases are putting unique
> identifiers at the start of the name (such as a resolution number or
> date) so wildcards could work in that case.
>
> Another problem is if I ever have to put these on the webpage- having
> filenames with spaces and just the messiness of the html code with huge
> names seems wrong.. but not sure how to make that argument to users.
>
> Any good resources or suggestions out there to look at?
>
> appreciate any help, thanks, Jim
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When I was using cdrecord/mkisofs to backup a fat32 partition I found
some really long file names on the windows partition. I read up on the
Posix spec for file names. Don't have any links handy but searching in
that direction may help, <posix file name>

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Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: 907-276-0461
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