Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!lindsay From: lindsay@cheviot.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Newcastle Connection on Pyramid 98X Message-ID: <2056@cheviot.uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot> Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 09:38:21 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.2056 Posted: Tue Apr 7 09:38:21 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 06:03:36 EST References: <248@rlvd.UUCP> <16184@sun.uucp> Reply-To: lindsay@cheviot (Lindsay F. Marshall) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK NE17RU Lines: 24 Xref: utgpu comp.unix.wizards:1701 comp.unix.questions:1651 In article <16184@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: >Or a VAX running Ultrix-32, or a Sequent, or a Celerity, or a Sun, >or a Gould, or.... Ultrix - Yes, Sun - Yes, Gould - yes........ >If the Newcastle Connection passes V7-flavored directory entries over >the wire, you have a problem, as this would restrict file names to 14 >characters. If it has a different format, somebody may have built a >version of the directory-reading code to handle 4.2BSD directories. The NC (unlike other systems I could mention) does not attempt to force you to have a model of directories that your system may not support naturally. If you are on a V7 system you see V7 style directories, if you are on a 4.2 system you see 4.2 style directories. Yes there are some impossible cases (long names for example) but generally you get what you want. -- Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK JANET: lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot ARPA: lindsay%cheviot.newcastle@ucl-cs PHONE: +44-91-2329233 UUCP: !ukc!cheviot!lindsay "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?"