Bob Brown asks me: > One of the first things I noticed about the directory when we started messin' > around with Spectrum machines (1988) was that the account, group, user, and > password names had been expanded to 16 characters. That is to say, they were > stored in the directory in spaces that had *room* for 16 characters, not that 16 > were actually allowed. This led me to believe, at the time, that someday these > and file names would be no longer restricted to 8 characters. D'ya suppose that > may have been a plan at one time? Unfortunately, this is one I don't know. Stan, Jeff V. or someone else might know. In '88 I was a humble VP of MIS for a mortgage company. I was too busy trying to keep the 70s running properly and didn't have access to the spectrum boxes on a regular basis until I joined Bradmark in 1990. This is an interesting question though! LB