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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember the good old days of Windows MS-DOS where they had an 8 character filename limit lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta go count my files again... oh yeah it's PROJE~14.BAS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

haha that was so infuriating. if their intent was to bastardize the filename horribly to make it noticeable that you defied the DOS limitation, they certainly succeeded. Yuck, totally forgot about the ~1 thing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Funnily enough you can have up to 65536 files in a directory in FAT, so you could technically end up with PR~65536.BAS