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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Long File Names in sys V.4
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.213820.17750@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <218@gouche.UUCP> <1991Apr28.142654.7727@mcrsys.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 21:38:20 GMT

In article <1991Apr28.142654.7727@mcrsys.UUCP> tony@mcrsys.UUCP (Tony Becker) writes:
>From article <218@gouche.UUCP>, by grant@gouche.UUCP (Grant Munsey):
>SVR4 supports long file names on the UFS file system. It supports
>symbolic (slime-bolic) links on all file systems. I have NFS installed,
>but no local network to try it. I am running UHC's SYSV R4 for X11
>developement.

Can't you do a "local" mount to try it out?  i.e. 
mount /usr/local /local

... or does NFS require networking to work at all?

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