Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ulticorp!rick
From: rick@ulticorp.UUCP (rick/1024000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX LPR OPTIONS (?)
Message-ID: <390@ulticorp.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 90 12:33:08 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.223701.25867@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Oct1.232359.4332@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Oct1.232359.4332@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu
	(Pete Resnick) writes:
>tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp) writes:
>>"XXXxxxozone.atmos.uiuc.edu".  Instead it has a name like
>>"XXXxxxozon".
>
>I'm not sure, but since AIX is system 5, there is a 14 character limit
>on filenames. Are they being truncated to 14 characters?
>
AIX is NOTTTTT System 5!!!!!!
The directory structure is very interesting. For example, try executing
the following commands on an RS/6000.

	echo > This_is_a_long_filename 
	ls This*
	od -c .

The output from 'ls' shows the long name, but the output from 'od' shows only
14 characters. 


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