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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character file names
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Date: 7 Feb 91 03:46:30 GMT
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In article <ANDYC.91Feb4134215@bucky.intel.com>, andyc@bucky.intel.com
(Andy Crump) writes:
> There are utilities in SVR4 (e.g. compress) that create filenames and
> refuse to create any that would be greater than 14 characters.  These
> utilities, IMHO, should check the filesystem type before making these
> decisions.
> 

I made exactly the change you describe above to compress in our V.4 
product, and it will be on the next update.  If you have examples of 
other commands with this problem, I would appreciate a email reply
with a list of them.

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