Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!apple!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: csa & cba postings Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 01:14:01 GMT References: <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 35 In article <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Jeff Martens writes: >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. > I was afraid this might break up into "My OS is better than YOUR OS" wars like this. PLEASE, lets not continue it!!!!! >>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 agree totally. However, the one I use doesn't. Now, if the moderator is the one making up the file names, then I am only asking that he consider us poor "14 char file name" folks. If he doesn't, then fine. I can always edit the shar files. >I'd hope that the moderators wouldn't try to enforce anything like >this. Would that make the "OLD" OSs go away? Would my company buy a new machine because of it? Just because YOU have access to something better doesn't mean that the rest of us have to live up to it's specs. 14 character file names are upward compatable, at least. :-) -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)