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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Larry Walls Patch program for SCO UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.160140.16561@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 Dec 90 16:01:40 GMT
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2544@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <18329@netcom.UUCP> aed@netcom.UUCP (Andrew Davidson) writes:
>
>| does any one know where I can get a version of Larry Walls patch program
>| that runs in SCO ODT UNIX.  I have a version that copys the files with
>| the extension .orig. sco only allows files to have 14 chars in there name
>| Supposedly there is a version that rename files to #
>
>  There's an option when you compile which uses a single character
>instead of .orig. I think the character is ~ rather than #, but no
>matter. I use it even on the version I have for V.4, where I do have
>long names. The longer name just makes directory listing larger.

Maybe, but if you run the Configure shell script, it will automatically test
to see if your box supports > 14 character file names or not and compile 
accordingly.

-- 
Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

You can please all of the people some of the time,