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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames
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Date: 29 Jan 91 22:34:32 GMT
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In <20711@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
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>>...this [14-char filename] limitation is making it difficult
>>to port a fairly extensive software system.
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>Yea...join the club...
>

It may not help in this instance, but check comp.sources.misc for a utility
that will take tar'd source trees created on systems not subject to the 14-
char limit, rename all overlong files, rename _all references to the over-
long files in the archive itself_, recalculate the checksums, and write a
new tar file.

-Richard (goer@sophist.uchicago.edu)