Re: 8.3 filename restriction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:45:34 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> To my understanding, 8.3 name restriction actually means
> that all filenames (in the same directory?) must be
> distinguished by the first 8 (or 7? 6?)  characters.

8

> So, idlw-complete-structtag.el is ok unless there's another file
> that starts with "idlw-complete".  Is it right?

Yes, except that even another file that starts with a "idlw-complete"
would be okay, if its extension (the part after the period) is not
".el".

> And, I remember that there were another filename restriction
> which limits the total length to 14 (or so) characters for
> some other system.  Does anyone remember the detail?

That's SysV limitation; see `doschk', which will show both.