Re: file names.number of characters

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <ricko-070494082955@evmac22.medill.nwu.edu>,
richard overton <ricko@merle.acns.nwu.edu> wrote:
>Who is the nice person who can tell me why Macintosh allows file and folder
>names to be so much longer than DOS file and directory names? 
>
>I am open to both kinds of answers: the simple one and the right one.

I expect you mean IBM-oid style DOS with its 8.3 file name format instead
of Apple DOS 3.3. That has me wondering why you're posting here but oh well.
What I would call the simple and the right answer is that MS-DOS is a piece
of crap operating system written by an evil company for gross hardware that's
not made by Apple. Cool operating systems by Apple let you have as many as 31 
chars in a file name and any printable char other than a colon is allowed.
Also the file's type is defined by a type field instead of the last three
chars in the name.
Can you tell that I'm an Apple fan? :)
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