Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:44:38 +0200 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=16 swap file cannot be created for files with long names On ODS-5 file system there is no this limitation and it works well. On ODS-3 needs to be fixed. Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:14:17 +0100 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=16#t22 VMS has a limit of 39 chars for the file extension. vim creates swap files by appending _sw% to the end of the extension. Naturally, if the extension of the file is already 36+ characters, the swap file cannot be created: $ vim a.123456789012345678901234567890123456 E303: Unable to open swap file for "a.123456789012345678901234567890123456", recovery impossible Would it be possible for the swap file name to use just the first 35 chars of the extension, before appending _sw%? Of course there would be ambiguity for similarly-named files: a.12345678901234567890123456789012345a a.12345678901234567890123456789012345b Would this matter? Or is some kind of swap-file ambiguity already accepted (e.g. for multi-translation logical names)? Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:40:18 +0100 http://www.polarhome.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=16#t30