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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:10:52 -0500

>From: "G. David Butler" <gdb@dbS...>

>I think each component limited to 27 octets is ok.

What am I saying?!?  A 9 "character" file name (with up to 3 octets
per "character") is a little anemic!  This neeeds to be at least 20.

So do we change NAMELEN from 28 to 64, or bigger?  Anybody from Japan
have an opinion?

David Butler
gdb@dbS...