Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!bbn.com!fkittred From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <63681@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 12 Apr 91 00:55:57 GMT References: <41652@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@bbn.com Reply-To: fkittred@spca.bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 22 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). No, you are wrong. HP-UX has supported long file names since version 2.0. You don't have your system configured properly. Check the man page for SAM and try to be less vehement in your erroneous assertions. Fletcher Kittredge Platforms and Tools Group, BBN Software Products 10 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. 02138 617-873-3465 / fkittred@bbn.com / fkittred@das.harvard.edu