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From: andyc@bucky.intel.com (Andy Crump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character file names
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Date: 4 Feb 91 13:37:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: rvk@cbnewsh.att.com's message of 2 Feb 91 19:03:51 GMT

>>>>> On 2 Feb 91 19:03:51 GMT, rvk@cbnewsh.att.com (robert.v.kline) said:


robert.v.kline> I've heard that SysVr4 will allow longer file names longer than 14
robert.v.kline> characters.  The current version of SunOS allows 256 character names.

Yes, but only in the UFS (Berkeley) filesystem.  In an S5 filesystem,
file names are still 14 characters.
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