Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvlx!tay From: tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Mike Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Filenames in HP-UX (was Re: Switching from Sun to HP) Message-ID: <101950214@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> Date: 29 Apr 91 09:32:26 GMT References: Organization: Planet X Lines: 36 > It seems like it would be possible for your software to check to see if > long filenames have been enabled during installation or startup by touching > a 15+ character filename and checking the results. Then tell the user to > convert since some people don't until they have to > >Come off it! > > (I haven't heard of any good reasons not to convert). > >In that case, why not ship HP-UX with long filenames enabled by >default? > >Wake up HP! Your customers like long filenames. Your kernel supports >them. It costs you next to nothing to have support for them switched >on by default. Your own staff see "no good reasons not to", so why not >just DO IT??? I like long filenames too. Almost everyone in our operation has switched over. I had always assumed there was some reason for not switching over that I was not aware of. I will discuss with my manager how I should most effectively lobby this change... Peace, Mike Taylor Current Products Engineering & Online Interface Technology Operation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Surface: Hewlett-Packard Internet: tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com 1000 NE Circle Boulevard UUCP: {hpfcla}!hpcvlx!tay Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Fax: (503) 750-4980 "I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal!" - Zaphod Beeblebrox