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[โ€“] TrickDacy 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

haha that was so infuriating. if their intent was to bastardize the filename horribly to make it noticeable that you defied the DOS limitation, they certainly succeeded. Yuck, totally forgot about the ~1 thing!

[โ€“] 9point6 5 points 3 weeks ago

Funnily enough you can have up to 65536 files in a directory in FAT, so you could technically end up with PR~65536.BAS