Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:48:05 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 lnobody AT delorie DOT com wrote:

> VitalModuleBar.3
> VitalModuleBaz.3
> 12345678.123
> ->
> VitalMod.3 for both.

Yes, but are those real-life examples?  How many Perl man pages actually 
clash like that?

In general, man pages whose file names exceed 8+3 limits are nothing new; 
that's why I made `man' support truncated file names.  The relly 
important question is: how many conflicts do we have to resolve in a 
given package.  In Groff, I had maybe 3 such clashes, so I renamed the 
clashing pages to something close.