Re: Re[2]: web file naming conventions... Unconventional

[Scott McClare <smcclare -at- DY4 -dot- COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Ion [SMTP:soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ML -dot- ORG]
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 5:58 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Re[2]: web file naming conventions... Unconventional
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:52:17 -0800, Barry Kieffer wrote:
>
>>Hold on there!
>>
>>blahblah1.htm and blahblah2.htm both violate the 8.3 DOS format.
>>
>>"blahblah1" and "blahblah2" are nine characters long.
>>
>>8.3 DOS format only allow for eight characters.

>I think that was exactly the point -- a DOS system might no
>know the difference between those two names, especially if
>they both got truncated to 8.3!
>
>Seems to me though, since this thing all started on Unix systems and used
>non-8.3 names (*.html, for example) from Day 1, since long before any DOS
>browsers, that this should not be an issue.

This is correct.  It becomes an issue if you want to save *local* copies of
something you've downloaded.  However, your DOS or Win31 browser doesn't
care how many characters are in filenames on a remote server.  All it does
is request a URI.  Filenaming conventions are the responsibility of the
server, not the client.

Take care,

Scott

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