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From: mike@hpwin052.HP.COM (Mike Croom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problems with HP Unix 7.0
Message-ID: <4010006@hpwin052.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 91 09:53:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.011709.6327@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: HP AEO - London, England
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The limit should be 14 characters unless you have severe problems.
The limit comes from AT&T SYS V. There is an option to install long
name file systems ( code from BSD) which may solve your problems. The key
is in your use of newfs to create the file systems. You should beware that
some code which works fine on short FS crash on long but most software
suppliers should be able to say whether it is OK or not.

Mike Croom