Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!sparkyfs.erg.sri.com!bigmac From: bigmac@erg.sri.com (Bryan McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <1991Apr9.231103.3217@erg.sri.com> Date: 9 Apr 91 23:11:03 GMT References: <41652@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@erg.sri.com Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 27 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). Actually, HP-UX 7.0 goes both ways. ;-) The default is to stay with short file names, but you can convert the filesystem to long file names at will. Of course, you then have to worry about what other HP sites that you interact with are doing, but that is another administrative headache... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan McDonald | Computer, Hardware, And Operations Support bigmac@erg.sri.com | CHAOS | ITAD - SRI International "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."