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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.011439.24359@virtech.uucp>
Date: 30 Jan 91 01:14:39 GMT
References: <290@sps.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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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?

The limitation is 14 characters.  Not 11 + 3 (in fact if you want an 
extension it is 11+2 because the period counts as one of the precious
14 characters).

This is standard System V Rx where X < 4.0.

With System V R4.0 you get 255 byte file names on UFS file systems.

Interactive has announced that SVR4 will be shipping (as a developers
release) in April.  Dell, UHC and Microport have SVR4 shipping today.

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