14 character limitation in filenames

[Jay Vassos-Libove]

Actually, though Brandon complains that long filenames are a pain to
type, a good shell can take care of that... I happily swipe fifty
and more character filenames in to a command line by punching escape
every now and then and letting my ksh or enhanced csh or enchanced sh
find the file on disk and complete the filename, or by punching ^D
and having the shell print out possible completions for me.

Besides, just because you can have longer filenames doesn't mean you
have to use them. Why turn down functionality? I hate it when bison
tries to create ">8 character filename".output files and fails under
SysVr3, and when patch tries to generate "14 character filename"# or ~
and fails... etc.
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