Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!hpfcmdd!hpbbrd!hpbbn!hpcc05!hpcuhb!hpcuhe!campbelr From: campbelr@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Bob Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Filenames in HP-UX (was Re: Switching from Sun to HP) Message-ID: <31480031@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 17:48:04 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 23 >> (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? A good reason is that there is no method to go from long to short filenames except for reinstalling. > 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??? The HP staff you talked with probably didn't have a need for short filenames, for that matter, some of the HP staff are Denver Bronco fans :-) I don't use them myself, but a customer with programs that had hardcoded filename length limits would be extremely pleased if we upgraded their systems to being nonfunctional. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Campbell Some times I wish that I could stop you from campbelr@hpda.cup.hp.com talking, when I hear the silly things you say. Hewlett Packard - Elvis Costello