From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 20:17:00 CDT
Bruce Lilly wrote:
> [...] magic numbers 30 and 71 [...] 88 characters [...]
> 71 restriction in the Lindsey draft [...] 66 octets
> [...] 31 limit in the Lindsey draft. [...] 997 octets
> [...] 255-character [...] 249 characters [...] ca. 200
> characters [...] 14 or 8 characters [...] POSIX_PATH_MAX
> [...]
There was a reason why I suggested that arbitrary numbers
and current implementations' limits be separated from the
actual format description.
Well, maybe in another five years or so ...