In MS-DOS (and FAT16), you could only have 8.3 file names (like QUESTION.TXT
) with only single-case letters and numbers (and a few symbols). The MS-DOS Editor also defaulted to 8.3 - typing edit questiontxt
in MS-DOS 6.22 would edit QUESTION.TXT.
While everything used 8.3, were 9.2 names possible?
For example, instead of the example above (QUESTION.TXT
), would QUESTIONT.XT
be an allowed filename (although it would not be practical)?