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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: B News' Directory permission problem in /tmp
Message-ID: <848@omen.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 89 10:02:30 GMT
References: <8910220254.AA05389@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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In article <8910220254.AA05389@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
:On Unix 3.2 I got error message for postnews:
:
:inews: Directory permission problem in /tmp
:Article not posted - exit status 256
:
Thanks to Posix, 15+ character file names now bounce.
There's a #ifdef in the news sources to limit the length of
temp filenames to 14 characters.

In this respect, what Posix needs is SVR4 (supposedly with
gigantic long file names).