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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames
Message-ID: <27B7F558.32E7@tct.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 91 14:02:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.003532.15719@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb7.041824.5269@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb11.072316.193@ico.isc.com>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn):
>allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>> ... drop the business of using prefixes/suffixes and just use
>> separate directories.  ".vcsdb/foo.c".
>
>No, that's not a solution, unless you're in an isolated corner of the world
>where you can use your own tools (or customized tools) ...

So modify RCS 5.5 -- it's available as source.

>... I was pointing out that you can't deal with enormously long file names
>by having some magical shell that does filename completion.  It may work in
>a small corner of the world, but it doesn't generalize.

So use Bash -- it's available as source.