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From: geoff@desint.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Long names in System V
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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 15:17:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 15:17:04 1987
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References: <040187.111854.dan@ibm.com>
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In article <040187.111854.dan@ibm.com> DAN@IBM.COM ("Walter E. Daniels Jr.") writes:

> 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.

Hear, hear!  Even better, how about if MIT admits that some of us are
stuck with Neanderthal systems, and renames every file to be TWELVE
characters or shorter?  (That leaves two so we can do SCCS or RCS).
If X is going to be a standard, it needs to bend a bit to accomodate
POSIX- and SVID-conforming systems.

While we're at it, can we *please* get rid of the uppercase characters
in file names?  This is a major pain with no gain.  For that matter, I'd
also love to get the Pascal-itis out of the C bindings, but I suppose
I'm too late on that.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff

Founder, National Committee to Stamp Out C That Wants to Be Another Language :-)