[Openfontlibrary] [Cctools-cchost] ccHost 5: pseudo-verify files with no extension

[Dave Crossland]

2008/10/19 George Williams <gww at silcom.com>:
>
>> and VAX and UNIX had no uniform way ... I think.
>
> VAX/VMS has always had file extensions and always used them to mark file
> types. It was (is) not possible to have a file without a "." in it. As I
> recall you could have about 30 characters before the "." and about 30
> after it (or you could after ~1982 or so).

Ah, cool! :-) I've only used a VMS system for about 10 minutes ;-)

>> Today, file extensions can be any length on all major OS,
>
> Well, not really. Posix has a ~256 character in filename limit. VMS
> still has the limits above (~30 character extensions).

Thanks for your corrections, I love this kind of trivia :-)