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Subject: LONG LONG LONG filenames in workspace
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Date: 4 Jul 90 00:33:45 GMT
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How do you get filenames longer than the default dir string slot?

I noticed strings in workspace files names like

/usr/people/dean/.workspace/_+usr_+people_+dean_+D.TableTop_+D.Skulls

The base name part is longer than 18 or so characters that a
unix dir string is allocated with.
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