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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX LPR OPTIONS (?)
Keywords: No 14 char limit
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Date: 2 Oct 90 15:28:43 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".
Pete> I'm not sure, but since AIX is system 5, there is a 14 character
Pete> limit on filenames. Are they being truncated to 14 characters?

Since he was using lpr, I assume this was on AIX 3.1 (it would be
/bin/print in AIX 2.2.1) which does not have the 14 char limitation
and uses BSD naming conventions...

					Ron

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