Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!shawnee.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@shawnee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: csa & cba postings Message-ID: <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Jan 90 23:23:16 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 18 In article dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes: >The recent "ChatterBox" posting will not "unshar" correctly, because >it uses filenames longer than 14 characters. You must be using a REALLY old version of Unix. >Would it be possible to make it so that future postings "unshar" >correctly under Unix? (I know, just be thankful I get them at all! :-) An operating system should be able to handle a descriptive file name. I'd hope that the moderators wouldn't try to enforce anything like this. -=- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Dan Quayle, space science advocate, on Mars: "We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."