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From: luism@genesis.Berkeley.EDU (Luis Miguel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
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Date: 9 Apr 91 16:45:00 GMT
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In article <TML.91Apr9103738@nyyti.tik.vtt.fi>, tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
|> 
|>    Does HPUX support long filenames, symlinks, job control, sockets, NFS?
|>    Is it POSIX compliant?
|> 
|> Yes, yes.  Sure.
|> 
Baloney!!!. I run HPUX 7.0, and it DOES NOT support long filenames
(A pain when untarring things with long filenames. In more than one
occasion the clipping of the name meant that some files were written
on top of others).


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