Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!killer!jolnet!clout!mark From: mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: News 3.0 open beta test Message-ID: <286@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG> Date: 1 Jul 88 17:28:49 GMT References: <995@flatline.UUCP> Reply-To: mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) Organization: House Jhereg, Streamwood, IL Lines: 26 In article <995@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes: >In article , eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >> More sites have signed up for the open beta: >> Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact >>------ ------- ----------- -------------------------------------------- >> jhereg 3B1 AT&T System V Mark H. Colburn (mark) > > >Hey. Just wondering what release of Unix the 3b1 beta would be testing? >3.0 or 3.5+? My machine is running 3.51a of the operationg system with the development set. It would be a simple matter of compiling the software with the -T switch on my machine to test for 8 character variable names, however. This is currently required of some of the software (VDI) libraries which are on the machine now. >Will 3.0 support <8 character filenames? I don't know, but we will check :-) -- Mark H. Colburn mark@jhereg.chi.il.us mark@jhereg.mn.org ..!chinet!jhereg!mark