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Oh, to go back to the 8.3 days... 11 ASCII characters is enough to name your files, right?

You can have north of 200 characters, so long you don't mind \ every 9 characters or so.

12 characters, if you count the dot.

Which OS was that?

I think by 8.3, he meant DOS 8.3 ?

8.3 refers to: 8 chars, a dot, 3 chars, which was the limit for filenames.