Re: after Nikon D70 passes 9999 images.... then what in terms of the filenames

Blinky the Shark wrote:
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Looks like the folder/file naming conventions were created to conform
to the limitations MS DOS and Windows used to have of an 8-character
limit on file names (and 3 on extensions). That's probably not
defeatable with your camera. Thanks again, Microsoft.

Yes, indeed, thanks are due to Microsoft for creating a standard which is
in use world-wide and allows great interoperability between different
devices. Perhaps you should really thank SCP, or even CP/M, or even the
PDP-OS on which it was based...

David


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