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From: evans@decvaxdec.com (Marc Evans)
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Subject: Re: #! on Ultrix
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Date: 17 Jul 90 11:10:38 GMT
References: <1990Jul16.162054.10019@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1990Jul16.175554.28208@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Jul16.175554.28208@iwarp.intel.com>,
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
|> It does, and it still does under 3.1 (we tested it after I posted).
|> They probably don't even know of it as a problem yet.  (They would
|> probably just give me a workaround anyway: "put your files in
|> directories with shorter names".  Yuck.)  As I said, Ultrix is not
|> UNIX (but closer than HP-UX or AIX, apparently).

I just tested this under ULTRIX 4.0 (the one which is going to be shipped to
DEC customers real soon). It is still there. I have submitted a QAR against
it, but I personally doubt that it will be fixed very soon. I'll see if I
can remember to pass word along when I hear something about its status...

- Marc
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