Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!amdahl!pccuts!acs From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: csa & cba postings Message-ID: <870@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> Date: 18 Jan 90 02:57:06 GMT References: <75826@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 33 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. Not really. It's a SVR3 version. >>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. Who says you can't be descriptive within a 14-character limit? Please, no flames about this...I understand the desire to use long names (I've done it myself in my not-so-recent VT100 distribution but all filenames were unique within the limit). There are quite a number of UN*X boxes out here which have to deal with the 14-character limitation. I don't necessarily expect the moderator to change filenames to fit within the limit but would hope that the *contributors* would be thoughtful enough to consider this issue. Perhaps an alternative is zoo things that contain long filenames? >-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) -- Tony Sumrall author of VT100 2.9 (and 2.8a and 2.8 and...) acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!pccuts!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]