mark@digi-g.UUCP (Mark Mendel) (05/29/85)
This is NOT part of the misplaced long name debate. This is an honest request!
Does anybody have a program the crunches down long names automatically? I've
read articles where the use of such
a program was recommended, but does it
exist? I'ld like a copy!
A good method would be:
all names longer than n (a command line paramter) are transformed as follows:
xy...z -> xNNNNy...z,
where NNNN is the base 36 representation of a the hash function of the full
original name, say a 16-bit crc.