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Re: [MiNT] Path names
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Henk Robbers wrote:
> Jo-Even.Skarstein@Vital.no wrote:
>
> > > How big are the chances that the following characters appear in path
> > > names?
> > Quite big...
> >
> > Gun's Roses - Appetite for Destruction - Welcome to the jungle(1).mp3
> > Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson & Willie Nelson -
> > Highwaymen.mp3
> Ah! Of course. Filenames have evolved into tables of content.
> I'm getting old.
>
> Next step is to allow infinite length filenames. :-)
No, no, no! You are all _far_ behind the times. Filenames went out years
ago. With the speed of modern hardware, filenames of any length are a mere
anachronism - on modern operating systems, the filename is simply the
contents of the file! When will MiNT catch up?
;-)
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Mario Becroft <mb@gem.win.co.nz>
http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/