Re: Problem with '/' in archieve name

Thomas Koenig (tkoenig@MIT.EDU)
Mon, 31 Jan 94 17:45:58 EST

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> I'd like to lobby for a name convention change, so that the names at the
> file level are unique across the entire news.answers directory at
> rtfm.mit.edu. The "part#" could be used as a suffix.

Suppose somebody wanted to retreive the books/stores/north-american/western
and books/stores/north-american/nyc FAQs from a System V machine which
cuts all filenames after 14 characters.

books.stores.north-american.western
books.stores.north-american.nyc
^
14 th character

In other words, these names would have to be unique within the first
14 characters to be useful to a large number of systems on the net. I
don't think any naming sheme is possible which is not at the expense
of clarity.

Thomas Koenig

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