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From: aad@stepstone.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: How well HP and SUNs work together
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 7 Mar 89 19:23:48 GMT
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hplabs!burdick@hpindda.hp.com (Matt Burdick) writes:
>	SUN's file system supports long file names (255 character names)
>	only.  HP-UX supports both long and short file names (14 character
>	names).  Short file names are supported because some applications
>	do not expect file names to be any longer than 14 characters.  The
>	catch is that once you convert a file system from short file names
>	to long file names, it isn't possible to reverse the process.

You would seem to imply that a filesystem with long filenames would
*require* filenames to be over 14 characters.


>	'nobody' to 0 rather than -2.  Note that this patches the bits in
>	the /hp-ux file rather than the running kernel.  Therefore, to use
>	it you must reboot the system:
>
>		#!/bin/sh
>		/bin/adb -w /hp-ux <<-"END_SEMI_CLUSTER"
>		        nobody?W 0
>		END_SEMI_CLUSTER

My 6.2 hp-ux has an "_nobody", but no "nobody"

>	HP-UX systems allow either IEEE 802.3 or Ethernet packets on the
>	LAN.

According to my documentation, Ethernet level 1 or 802.3.  No level 2.
Our HP 9000/320 drops 95-98% of the packets when I spray it remotely.

>	HP-UX uses terminfo while SUN uses termcap.

HP-UX, as far as I can tell, prefers the terminfo files, and the libraries
use them.  There's a /etc/termcap file there as well, for applications
that look at it directly.  As I understand it, SunOS uses the termcap file
when you call termcap routines, and terminfo files if you call terminfo
routines, although I've never run a Sun in SysV mode.

>	vice-versa).  For purists, there is an 'lpr' script that is a
>	wrapper around 'lp' that can be used (I'm not sure if it's shipped
>	with HP-UX or not, though).

Our 6.2 has the lpr script, but I can't figure out from the man pages how
to get it to interact with our remote lpd.

Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad