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From: al@cs.strath.ac.uk (Alan Lorimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Long filenames on HPUX 6.2
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Date: 13 Oct 89 09:12:10 GMT
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This disussion of long filenames is quite interesting, We converted to
LFNs about a year ago, in fact as soon as 6.2 came out. It never
crossed our minds that there would be any problems running with
HP64000, HP DesignCenter, Teamwork etc, and indeed we have had none.
We had long file names before HP supported them, since most of our
user's file stores were NFS mounted from a sequent machine (4.2 BSD)
which naturally supported LFNs. We didn't find any HPUX comand which
didn't know how to cope!

One little problem which has arisen is in the X11 include files, where
some of the file names had been truncated by the 14 char system, and
of course didn't have the `.h' on the end when accessed by the LFN
method (in particular note: mit-copyright.h)


Regards,

Alan.
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Alan G. Lorimer, Strathclyde University, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH.
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