hello
this looks like a bug to me... it seems the parser imposes improper limits
on the length, so that the last pattern to match is counted as if it's not
a pattern but as five characters:
:listfile W[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]
works fine, but
:listfile W[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]A
or
:listfile W[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]
generates "File name is more than eight characters long. (CIERR 532)" (and
points to the last "A" and the last "[" as the 'offenders'...)

this works the same on my 5.5 and my 7.0 systems

however, naming the file as an hfs-file works for me:
:listfile ./W[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9]
works when
:listfile W[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9]
doesn't...

hth
/per (hmmmm, "the last pattern" is probably not correct, but I hope you see
what I mean...)

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HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> skrev 2004-02-17
10:55:20:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I want to search list all the files of the format "XAAAAAnn" in a group
> where
> X=Character X,
> A=Any Character between [a-z] and
> N=any number between 0-9
>
> So I used the following command
> LISTFILE X[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9]."GROUP-NAME"
>
> This gives the following error
> File name is more than eight characters long. (CIERR 532)
>
> Can anyone throw some light on this???
>
> Venkat
>
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