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From: bayko@BOREALIS.CS.UREGINA.CA (John Bayko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 12 Nov 1996 19:13:09 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Dept. of Computer Science
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References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> <kbibb.847601696@shellx> <1996111206190712643@[192.159.32.2]>
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In article <1996111206190712643@[192.159.32.2]>,
Shawn Barnhart <swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com> wrote:
>
>I thought I read someplace that one of the original incarnations of Unix
>could only support two character file names. Hence many of the basic
>system commands (ls, mv, cp, rm, cd, and so forth) are only two
>characters.
Except that they were all kept in /bin, which is a three
character name.
No serious operating system would ever place such a restrictive
limit on file names.
--
John Bayko (Tau).
bayko@cs.uregina.ca
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko