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From: dlj@hpfcdc.HP.COM (David Jobusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
Message-ID: <5570602@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 14:38:37 GMT
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/ hpfcdc:comp.sys.hp / luism@genesis.Berkeley.EDU (Luis Miguel) / 10:45 am  Apr  9, 1991 /
>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.
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	Er, incorrect.

	HP-UX 7.0 (and of course later) does indeed support long filenames. 
	Check the man pages for "fs(4)", "mkfs(1M)", "newfs(1M)" and 
	"convertfs(1M)".

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