Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druky.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!drutx!druky!ewh From: ewh@druky.UUCP (HarkinsEW) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: long vs. short names Message-ID: <740@druky.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 15:00:26 EDT Article-I.D.: druky.740 Posted: Mon Aug 20 15:00:26 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:26:32 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 7 re: long vs. short identifiers; it seems to me that with a bit of judiciousness, one can have it both ways: instead of doggoneid1 being confused with doggoneid2 in a truncating compiler, if you declare them like this: 1doggoneid and 2doggoneid, ie, make the unique part first instead of last, then you have portable long ids. see any holes kids? ernie harkins