Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!a243!riley From: riley@a243.even.ge.com (U-E59331-Dana Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 21:23:58 GMT References: <41652@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Lines: 24 Originator: news@hpt01.even.ge.com luism@genesis.Berkeley.EDU (Luis Miguel) 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). I also run HPUX 7.0 and it does support long filenames. Specifically, short filenames is the default, but the disk can be configured to support long filenames. At version 8.0 of HP-UX, it comes configured for long filenames. -- ____________________________________________________________ | | | Dana M. Riley, Senior Analyst | | General Electric Aircraft Engines |