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On 5/29/24 8:26 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
I agree with Jon about IBM not spending a dime on this idea. First off it
would/might break quite a long list of software both commercial and private.
While I might like to see program names maybe a bit longer, I completely
agree about longer names breaking an enormous amount of published
software, in ways that would be absurdly expensive to fix, with very
little benefit.
And we already have a place, in the QSYS.LIB file system, to put an
explanation of the incomprehensibly short names sometimes necessary when
you only have 10 characters. It's called "text."
I still remember high school, over five decades ago, on an IBM 370/135
running McGill University MUSIC 2.3. Where filenames could only be SIX
characters long. And that namespace was common to *all* users, even for
their *private* files. As I recall, user-IDS were limited to four
characters, and passwords to six.
--
JHHL
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