Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: extended file names
Keywords: filenames unix
Message-ID: <1990Mar26.234917.13978@virtech.uucp>
Date: 26 Mar 90 23:49:17 GMT
References: <511363@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <511363@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>Is there a way to modify the kernel (386/ix) to increase the length
>of file names to 18 characters?  

Not if you are an end-user.  If you had source you could attempt
it, but you would run into problems all through the system when you 
find programs that read a directory assuming it is 16-bytes per entry.

Even the smart programs that can recognize the difference between BSD
directories and System V directories would be fooled and break.

Even if I had source, I would try to add source for the BSD file system
before I tried extend the System V file system to support 18 character
file names.

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