Re: [Groff] new groff_differences.man

[Jon Snader]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:50:54AM -0700, Clarke Echols wrote:
> 
> When I had to fight the problem (Starbase graphics library function
> names had atrocious man page filenames for a 14-character limit --
> some had identical names until the 16th or 18th character!), we had to
> get creative at times and abbreviate portions of the name starting at
> or near the beginning until we reached the requisite 14-character maximum.
> The Sys V Rel 2 expansion to 256 characters was welcome, though I have yet
> to discover why any sane person would want more than 25 or so.  Even 14 for
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> the limit makes me wonder where that limit came from since it is not an
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> integer multiple of 2.
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> 

The early directory entries where 16 bytes.  Two bytes for the inode
number and the other 14 for the file/directory name.

Jon Snader