What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

Bruce G. Barnett barnett at crdgw1.crd.ge.com
Sat May 27 02:13:31 AEST 1989


In article <338 at arc.UUCP>, steve at arc (Steve Savitzky) writes:

>Personally, I like 255-character filenames (well, maybe 127), for

Long filenames are great. I use filenames all the time to hold
extra information, which allows database queries using shell meta-characters.

>IMHO this is better than the way NFS does it (i.e. mounting
>filesystems in random places) -- everything is in exactly one place in
>the hierarchy.

If you want to criticize your system managers, this is not the place to do it.

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