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From: wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: BASIC/HFS/long file name systems (was Re: Switching from Sun to HP)
Message-ID: <39726@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 18:58:44 GMT
Organization: Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Labs, Daerborn, MI
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In article <1991Apr9.171701.15715@cs.utk.edu>, ba7@venus.ornl.gov (M. Lee Bailey III) writes:
> 
> I run HPUX 7.0, and it DOES support long filenames.

Yeah, I know - and I was going to take advantage of that. I was moving
my HP-UX 7.0 environment to a larger disk. This machine occasionally is
used as a BASIC workstation (wipe those smiles off your faces :-). It
has BASIC 5.x sharing the hard disk.

I decided to create a long file name file system on the new disk.
HP-UX moved fine, but BASIC didn't seem to like it (a CAT listed the
LIF header of the boot block as a LIF disk - it apparently didn't
recognize it as HFS).  When I re-created the file system as a short
file name file system, things were OK. In both cases, they first 8K
bytes of the two file systems were identical.

This is just curiosity more than anything else - I thought BASIC
determined an HFS disk from info in the boot block (the first 8K).
There seems to be more to it than that, though. Anybody know what? And,
I'm inviting RTFM flames - does it say in any BASIC documentation that
long file name systems aren't supported? I must've missed that one.

Thanks in advance.

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