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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: (Probably dumb) SysVR3 questions
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 13:08:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 13:08:07 1987
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In article <25420@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>COFF, unfortunately, thinks file names are limited to 14 characters (I presume
>this is the source of SGS's problem), but that's just a botch.  You could stick
>longer file names in the string table, and just have first 4 bytes of the
>filename auxiliary entry be zero and the next 4 be a string table index.

All "ar" utilities I know of, including 4.2BSD's, restrict member names
to something like 14 or 16 characters.  Thus the problem is not restricted
to COFF filename entries.