Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: 14 character limitation in filenames Message-ID: <1991Feb13.225958.10248@robobar.co.uk> Date: 13 Feb 91 22:59:58 GMT References: <1991Feb7.041824.5269@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb11.072316.193@ico.isc.com> <27B7F558.32E7@tct.uucp> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 15 chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > So modify RCS 5.5 -- it's available as source. He doesn't need to. RCS 5.5 *already* supports impoverished filename capability mode of usage. As quoted from rcs-5.5/README: +---------- | Normally, RCS file names contain `,', which is outside the Posix portable | filename character set; but in impoverished Posix environments, you can | compile RCS so that the RCS file for Foo is named just RCS/Foo. +---------- -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)