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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
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Subject: file name lengths for contributed software
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Date: 19 Aug 88 01:03:40 GMT
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Two more notes on user-contributed software:

	Please keep all filenames to 12 or fewer characters (including 
	extensions such as ".c").  Otherwise you will not be portable
	(we say 12 so that people can have two characters to use with
	a source code control systems)

	If possible, please provide Imakefiles.


These two, combined with using X11/Xos.h go a long way towards making X
programs run on a variety of different platforms.

Jim Fulton
MIT X Consortium