Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!IBM.COM!DAN From: DAN@IBM.COM.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Long names in System V Message-ID: <040187.111854.dan@ibm.com> Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 14:18:15 EST Article-I.D.: ibm.040187.111854.dan Posted: Wed Apr 1 14:18:15 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 05:31:46 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 6 What do people do about the long names of many pieces of X on systems (like System V) that do not support long names? Presumably they shorten them. Does everybody use the same short name? How about a shell script to do the fixes in some standard way. Just getting them off the tar tape is a super pain as many of them fall on top of each other.