Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS? Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun! Message-ID: <459@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 26 May 89 16:13:31 GMT References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16 In-reply-to: steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) In article <338@arc.UUCP>, steve@arc (Steve Savitzky) writes: >Personally, I like 255-character filenames (well, maybe 127), for Long filenames are great. I use filenames all the time to hold extra information, which allows database queries using shell meta-characters. >IMHO this is better than the way NFS does it (i.e. mounting >filesystems in random places) -- everything is in exactly one place in >the hierarchy. If you want to criticize your system managers, this is not the place to do it. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP