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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: how to get longer file names?
Keywords: file names longer help
Message-ID: <1990Dec07.154114.15120@eye.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 15:41:14 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.123154@dali.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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In article <1990Dec6.123154@dali.gatech.edu> mike@penguin.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	I don't suppose that there is any way to allow my file
>names to be longer that 14 characters, is there?  If there is, please
>tell me how.  Also, please, please tell me that I don't have to hack
>the kernel.

No worries.... Use convertfs(1m) to get long (255-char) filenames on existing
filesystems; newfs -L will create a new filesystem that support long names.
I'm pretty sure both were included at hp-ux 6.5 and have done several
conversions under 7.0.

Caveats: I've never had any problem w/ either command, but have heard that
folks have managed to corrupt their filesystems w/convertfs.  Definitely
backup first!!  Also, if you're in the business of creating libs, be warned
that ar will NOT correctly archive files that have 15+ char filenames.
HP knows this, so maybe there's a patch.  Else you wait for 8.0.

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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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