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Subject: Re: Limitations on Standard Filenames in X?  System V Strikes Again.
Message-ID: <6370001@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 13:23:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 13:23:19 1987
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/ hpcupt1:comp.windows.x / donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) /  5:47 pm  Aug 29, 1987 /
The irony of all this is that, at least on the hp9000s300 boxen, the
underlying directory structure is the Berkeley one.  Marketing
considerations prompted HP to crimp Berkeley's 256-character filenames
back down to 14...  Here at Utah we're doing our best to fix this (but
our X implementation still doesn't work quite right yet).

Maybe you won't need to chop filenames in the future,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@cs.utah.edu
40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W    (801) 581-5668    utah-cs!donn

PS -- xbob is now our standard X implementation tester...
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I think this was done to pass the SVID validation suite...

Steve Witten
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Industrial Applications Center