Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Long filenames on HPUX 6.2 Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 89 22:29:51 GMT References: <4243@yunexus.UUCP> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 29 In-reply-to: mathieu@yunexus.UUCP's message of 10 Oct 89 13:30:17 GMT In article <4243@yunexus.UUCP> mathieu@yunexus.UUCP (Pierre Mathieu) writes: > > [ ... ] I am therefore considering converting our system to long > filenames. Before I do this however, I would like to > hear from people who have done it on their systems > [ ... ] > and whether it has created problems running HPUX software > or other non-HP software such as Emacs, TeX82, etc... ^^^^^ we converted to long file names as soon as we could. the _only_ problem that we have run into is that ar will truncate the filenames that you add to libraries to 14 characters, but when you try to replace a member, it compares against the full filename. this leaves two (or more) copies of the same file in the library. not good. on the whole, it has probably _saved_ us from problems since we no longer have to worry about emacs creating tilde (backup) files with the same name as the original. it is also nice to be able to compress an entire directory without having to worry about the filenames being too long with the .Z's added on. i would say that after using long file names for a while, our average number of characters per filename hasnt changed much. it's just that you no longer _have_ to make short names. -wayne