Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!utkcs2!venus!ba7 From: ba7@venus.ornl.gov (M. Lee Bailey III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <1991Apr9.171701.15715@cs.utk.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 17:17:01 GMT References: <41652@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Reply-To: ba7@venus.epm.ornl.gov (M. Lee Bailey III) Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab Lines: 29 In article <41652@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> luis@postgres.berkeley.edu writes: >In article , 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). > > >-- >Luis Miguel. Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley. >arpanet: luis@postgres.Berkeley.EDU >uucp: {ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!postgres!luis >at&t: (415) 642-8234 Baloney!!!. I run HPUX 7.0, and it DOES support long filenames. We, however, read the man page on convertfs(1M) in order to enable this feature. _M_._ _L_e_e_ _B_a_i_l_e_y_ _I_I_I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _M_a_r_t_i_n_ _M_a_r_i_e_t_t_a_ _E_n_e_r_g_y_ _S_y_s_t_e_m_s_,_ _I_n_c_. Internet: _b_a_7_@_o_r_n_l_._g_o_v BITNET: _B_I_T_N_E_T_%_"_b_a_7_@_o_r_n_l_s_t_c_" Slo-Mail: _P_._ _O_._ _B_o_x_ _2_0_0_9_,_ _O_a_k_ _R_i_d_g_e_,_ _T_e_n_n_e_s_s_e_e_ _ _3_7_8_3_1_-_8_2_0_3