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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames
Message-ID: <+VF9I=3@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 21:46:11 GMT
References: <20711@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Feb1.003532.15719@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb7.041824.5269@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb11.072316.193@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991Feb11.072316.193@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> 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) instead of using the
> common ones.  For very many sites, this is just not a choice.

Hacker solution:

adb -w all the "sccs" tools and change "s." to "s/", then wrap them in scripts
that make sure the "s", "p", etc... directories exist.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"