Practically speaking, 12 to 15 characters is a usable length. This is in addition to the 3 character file identification extension. General rule -- shorter is better <G>, but most browsers will deal with at least 12 or 15 characters as long as they contain only legal characters: Alpha-numeric, dash (hyphen) and underscore. -- Pat Asher Ambrose Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ Help for Beginning Web Authors http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yahoo jimvgill" <jimvgill@yahoo.com> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 9:25 PM Subject: filenames > I've been looking among the Rootsweb FAQs for some guidance on filename > lengths. Up to now I've been sticking with 8 dot 3, all lowercase. I will > continue to stick with lower case, but would really like to use longer file > names for pages, jpegs etc. so it's a little easier to tell what those files > are. > > Can someone tell me the practical limits for filenames on the rootsweb > servers or point me to a help page on this subject? > > Thanks > > Jim Gill > webmaster, Catlin Historical Society, www.rootsweb.com/~ilchs > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > ______________________________