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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Long filenames on HPUX 6.2
Message-ID: <1204@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 13:20:52 GMT
References: <4243@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <4243@yunexus.UUCP> mathieu@yunexus.UUCP (Pierre Mathieu) writes:
>I have been experiencing difficulties with programs that 
>expect long filenames (greater than 14 characters). 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
>(since the process is not reversible, except by restoring
>the system from a archival backup)
>and whether it has created problems running HPUX software
>or other non-HP software such as Emacs, TeX82, etc...

We run HP-UX 6.5 on our 9000/300 machines and 3.1 on our 800s.
On all these machines we have changed to 255 char file names.
The only problem we had was that uugetty on the 835 did'nt recognize a
lock file that was more than 14 chars long.  This was due to very
unusual choice of name for modem /dev files (not recommended!). 
If you stick to the standard tty, cua, and cul syntax you're safe
(and do not brake other programs).

In fact, on my 370 I still have short filenames on two of the disks
(file systems) since that is still required for the other operating
systems I use (you can have up to 16 different OSs in each HP
file system).  Otherwise I would have changed those file system to
long names too.  The file system on the 370 that has long file names
is being NFS exported.

--Bo


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