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My officemate doesn't remember when file names had to be 8 characters or less
Ha! Wait, that wasn't that long ago, was it? Was it?
No. Especially if you count today. There's still a surprisingly large number of businesses that are content to run on Windows 3.11, and still stuck with the eight character limit.
My officemate doesn't remember when file names had to be 8 characters or less (it was 8, right?). Damn, I'm old.
What I remember is laughing at PC users while cheerfully naming my files any damn thing on my Mac. Good times, good times.
Ha! Wait, that wasn't that long ago, was it? Was it?
Um, Windows 95 was the first Microsoft OS that supported long file names. So most college freshmen have never faced the short filename issue.
What I remember is laughing at PC users while cheerfully naming my files any damn thing on my Mac. Good times, good times.
Back in those days, I couldn't afford a Mac. My first PC was a Leading Edge XT clone - I got it for $400 new because it was discontinued.
My officemate doesn't remember when file names had to be 8 characters or less (it was 8, right?). Damn, I'm old.
2006.
I mean, if you use Captiva ImageAccel. Parts of that application for sale today for mucho dinero will break if you try and put files in directories (remember when they were called that, and not folders?) with long file names.
I've become a lot more reticent about clicking on links (oh, the irony) since the migraines. I feel quite pacific about not having clicked on that one.
Now I feel kinda bad.
My Mac Performa had to walk uphill both ways through 12 feet of snow to get to the internet.
I think the Windows-standard DOS FTP program can't deal with filenames of more than 8 chars to this day. I'd go about retrieving MYFILE~1.doc all the time. (That's how it truncated stuff.) And till just recently, I was still using the free Paint Shop Pro, which worked on Windows 98+, and required short filenames.
The first couple computers I used had the OS built in (in EPROM or something). The first time I used a PC, I was thinking, "What is this DOS thing and why do I need it?" (That was for a work-study programming job. I programmed in qbasic.)
Now I feel kinda bad.
Pshaw. Just don't have lilies in your apartment when you invite me over, and we're good.
Captiva InputAccel is one of the top two enterprise capture applications now on the market. It costs a fair chunk of change, and does a boatload of nifty things. Handle long filenames and support rightclicking over thumbnails aren't so much in that boat.