>>hexadecimal.
I am in a halfway house when it comes to IT. I am the department designated expert. Have earned money from IT and have developed programs long ago, in the days when Pascal was very green screen.
Wrote a very simple 65,536 item stock system on an 8kb 8 user (screens) Altos CP/M machine and the we had to use 1 byte integers. Multiplying two integers together gave us the 65,536 options we needed at the time.
There is no apparent reason for the naming restriction. It's a modern system written in a modern high level language.
I can only think the file import component was developed for a legacy system and just copied over.
I could understand the limitations if some form of check digit was used, but there are none.
Several major banks use the same two packages and I guess have the same problems.
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Computer file name conundum new
Computer file name conundum new