Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!mudos!mju From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 90 02:24:33 GMT References: <1990Dec04.003651.13014@jadpc.cts.com> Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, +1 313 665 2832 Lines: 17 jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes: > Or how about instead of silently truncating a file name > 14 > characters, giving you a nice big fat error in the middle of a make or > something until you clear a flag? Example: Try compiling cnews and > create the subst file for spacefor. Blows up everytime! Well, this "feature", at least, is pretty easy to fix. Go to /etc/conf/cf.d and run configure. Choose "Disk and Filesystem Parameters" (option #3, I think), and change the "ETRUNCATE" (or whatever it's called...The one about POSIX filename truncation) from the default value of "0" to "1". Relink, reboot, and viola, you have regular UNIX behavior for long filenames. -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | "Bus error: passengers dumped" ...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju |