Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!tadguy From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: csa & cba postings Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 01:22:10 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com's message of 17 Jan 90 21:05:49 GMT In article dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes: > However, I have a suggestion..... Suggestions posted to the net are not as likely to reach the moderator as those sent to the address listed at the end of every posting... > The recent "ChatterBox" posting will not "unshar" correctly, because > it uses filenames longer than 14 characters. Would it be possible > to make it so that future postings "unshar" correctly under Unix? Gee, it unshars correctly on xanth, which runs UNIX. That should be rewritten as ``correctly under my UNIX, where we aren't permitted to have reasonable filenames like everyone else...'' Seriously, the names of the files in the sources or binaries postings are those used by the person submitting the software, and are not chosen by the moderator. You'll have to appeal to software developers to use short names for files... It's somebody else's problem... :-) ...tad