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From: roe@sobeco.com (r.peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Long filenames?
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.065204.2237@sobeco.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 06:52:04 GMT
References: <7204@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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From article <7204@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>, by beihl@cadillac:
> I'm looking at porting an application to the Tower and would like to
> know if it's possible to create files with arbitrarily long names.

This is file-system dependent.  The tower supports the "standard"
sysV file system - 14-character filenames only.

There are *no* unix file systems that I am aware of that support
arbitrarily long file names - best I know of is the BSD / FFS file
system, giving 255-char names, with a maximum pathname of 1024 chars.

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