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From: dpb@orac.UUCP (Don Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Long filenames on HPUX 6.2
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Date: 13 Oct 89 17:42:16 GMT
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> We also did this on our HPs since we also have Suns and a Pyramid.
> Unfortunately some utilities didn't grok long names. The specific
> instance I uncovered is that ar only handles 14 char filenames.
> ... 
> After this little gotcha I didn't bother testing RCS & SCCS, but 
> I would bet they break also.

RCS still doesn't know about long file names, (at least as of 6.5)
but you can get source from Purdue and build a version that does.


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