Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: csa & cba postings Message-ID: <75829@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 18 Jan 90 01:36:06 GMT References: <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 27 In article dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes: .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 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. :-) Just upgrade to a recent version of Unix. Of course, if you're using something really backward, like a Honeywell DPS-6, then I can understand being stuck with Sys III. -=- -- 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."