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[Jim Hewes]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:gibvps$squ$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:gibslk$nsu$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Things like that are pet peeves of mine (ie, using ".htm" instead of 
> ".html", ".jpg" instead of ".jpeg", etc.) The only reason for the 
> three-letter versions in the first place was Windows 3.11 and prior. Such 
> restriction was removed over a decade ago.

I've encountered trouble with Windows Installer when trying to install files 
with long filenames onto Windows 98. It just wouldn't install the files 
correctly. I never found out the exact cause but instead just renamed the 
files back to short names to fix it. Fortunately we've recently dropped 
support for Windows 98. :)  But for driver files that have to go into 
C:\Windows\System32 I still have a fear of breaking away from 8.3. Maybe 
it's superstition at this point, but who knows what 8.3 troubles still lurk 
in Windows.

Jim