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From: ricks@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Silverstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: File Truncation, urgent question
Keywords: unix, sco, trunc
Message-ID: <6217@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 90 16:44:43 GMT
References: <3@edvvie.at>
Reply-To: ricks@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Silverstein)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <3@edvvie.at> fozzy@edvvie.at (Fozzy C. Dressel) writes:
>Does anybody know a kernel parameter for truncating file which are
>longer than 14 characters.E.g.
>touch abcdefghijklmnopqrstu will not longer say 'could not create'
>truncate it automaticly to 14 character
>I got this problem on SCO-UNIX 3.2/386, using software, which was
>developed under INTERACTIV/386.

If you are just concerned with the touch utility, this can be done in
software.  First copy touch to touch.real.  Then replace touch with the
following shell script:

for i in $*
do
	touch.real `echo $i | cut -c1-14`
done