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From: mckee@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bret McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problems with HP Unix 7.0
Message-ID: <5570563@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 91 16:36:02 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.011709.6327@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>	We have a HP 9000 system running HP Unix 7.0.  Unfortunately
>there is only a 11 character limit on filenames, which is bad when
>you install products that have long file names in them.  Anyone
>know why this is occurring?

For various backward-compatibility reasons, hp-ux supports both short 
and long filename filesystems.  There is an option (-L/-S) which tells
mkfs to make either a long or short name filesystem.  If you want to change
an existing disk from short to long, use the convertfs(1M) utility.  

*** Warning:  This is a one way trip.  Once converted to long, newfs is
	the only way to make it short again


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Bret Mckee

Hewlett Packard 
HP-UX Development Lab
Phone:(303)229-6116	email: mckee@hpmckee or mckee%hpmckee@hplabs.hp.com
Copyright (c) Bret Mckee 1990.  All Rights Reserved.
 
Of course, these are just my opinions...