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by wmu 2251 days ago
There's the first issue: "`regex2fat` is nine characters long" (https://github.com/8051Enthusiast/regex2fat/issues/1) :)
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MICROS~1.COM came up with a naming workaround.
Could someone explain the joke?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename

> "A SFN filename can have at most 8 characters before the dot. If it has more than that, the first 6 must be written, then a tilde '~' as the seventh character and a number (usually 1) as the eighth. The number distinguishes it from other files with both the same first six letters and the same extension."

It's a fat joke.