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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.235840.4480@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Jan 91 23:58:40 GMT
References: <290@sps.com> <20711@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <20711@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In article <290@sps.com> arm@sps.com (Annette Myjak) writes:
>>can anyone explain why there's the 14 character limitation in filenames
>>(11 + 3 for extension) in interactive unix?
>
>Overcome in System V release 4.  It *can* be done in System V.3.2
>(Tektronix UTek V for the 88000 has flex-names and is 3.2 based).
>Noone has done it for the 386 that I know of.
>

ESIX V.3.2.D has the berkeley fast file system, allowing greater than
14 character file names.... but you don't want to use it because some
of the file system programs are broken.  Unless they've fixed them and
not sent out updates?

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