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From: leue@galen.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Long Filenames
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Date: 5 Jan 89 14:16:31 GMT
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Reply-To: leue@galen.UUCP (Bill Leue)
Organization: General Electric Research & Development
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(Apologies to Thread-followers: I forgot the original title of this
topic. Anyway, Bob Lenk writes:)

>> long file names are optionally available on the 835.

>Lest anyone misunderstand, "optionally" means at the system
>administrator's discretion on a per-filesystem basis (not "at extra
>cost").  Short filename filesystems can be used to maintain
>compatibility for older applications.  This applies to all series 800
>and series 300 hardware.
>
>                Bob Lenk

Quite right.  We were interested in reuilding our file systems on our
HP 9000/350 system so that it would be more compatible with our existing
Sun network.  However, for us there was a major gotcha which forced us
to keep the 14-character limitation:  this system hosts HP's MDE
environment (the 64000/UX hardware with in-circuit emulators, etc.),
and our salesperson told us that the MDE will break if we change the
file system.

-Bill Leue
leue@ge-crd.arpa, uunet!steinmetz!galen!leue