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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.040211.29253@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 14 Dec 90 04:02:11 GMT
References: <1990Dec02.213409.17190@ka3ovk.irs.GOV> <1990Dec04.003651.13014@jadpc.cts.com> <4754@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <4754@auspex.auspex.com> by guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris):
+---------------
| >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?
| 
| POSIX allows either behavior, but, as I remember from previous
| discussions of this topic, the FIPS ((US) Federal Information Processing
| Standard) based on POSIX 1003.1 requires the ENAMETOOLONG error for
| this.
+---------------

Remind me never to take a programming job that involves U.S. government work.
Those cretins *would* do something stupid like this.

Maybe they'll demand that people program in FORTRAN next.

++Brandon
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