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From: puglia@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Paul Puglia)
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Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
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Date: 9 Apr 91 21:22:11 GMT
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In article <41652@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> luis@postgres.berkeley.edu writes:
>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).
>
>
>-- 
>Luis Miguel. Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley.
>arpanet: luis@postgres.Berkeley.EDU         
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Untrue. I believe that even 6.5 supported long file names.  You have to 
convert your filesystem to use them though. Pages 6-63 thru 6-72 
in the HP-UX Systems Administration Tasks manual describes the procedure
for, and the consequences of making the change. 


Paul Puglia
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Columbia University

puglia@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu