[PLUG] Package Name Lengths in different distros

Ben Koenig techkoenig at protonmail.com
Fri Jun 10 21:49:23 UTC 2022


He should have submitted a patch. It's 2022 and the bug report is still open.

Maybe the mailer for su-ai wasn't the root cause...
-Ben

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-------- Original Message --------
On Jun 10, 2022, 2:21 PM, Randy Bush < randy at psg.com> wrote:
back about '80, a compiler geek at su-ai asked on the arpanet lang list
whether an 8 or 12 char limit for variable names was appropriate.
david moon, cmu, sent an email to report a bug in the su-ai mailer which
was regurgitating mail from the '50s and '60s, but with current dates.
randy


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