Re: Filename guarantees

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On January 18, 2002 at 00:18, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:14:50 -0800 (PST) 
> Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com> wrote:
> 
> > What filesystems do not support the characters appearing in valid
> > message IDs?
> 
> Some filesystems have filename length limits which Message ID's
> exceed.

VMS is an example.

The other issue are certain characters.  But encoding message IDs
to quoted-printable format avoids this problem, but I still think
VMS has problems with '=' in filenames and multiple occurances
of '.'.  I believe, the current annotation capabilities are unusable
under VMS.

--ewh