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From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BASIC/HFS/long file name systems (was Re: Switching from Sun to HP)
Message-ID: <7370360@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 06:19:58 GMT
References: <39726@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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In /comp.sys.hp/ wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr ) / asks:
| This machine occasionally is used as a BASIC workstation ...
| It has BASIC 5.x sharing the hard disk. ...
| 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.

Not in the edition of the 5.0/5.1 manuals which came out in 11/87 (that 
was before HP-UX had long file name support, I gather from another posting
in this group).  But see, for example, page c-1 of Chapter 2 of _Installing
and Maintaining the BASIC 5.0/5.1 System_ as revised 5/88 where it says:
"Do Not Use Long File Name HFS Discs"
						Regards, Steve taylor

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