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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Long File Names under HP-UX 7.0
Keywords: Long File Names, Logic Systems Division
Message-ID: <1067@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 15:30:39 GMT
References: <3339@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: gentry@kcdev. (Art Gentry)
Organization: AT&T Kansas City, Mo.
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In article <3339@pikes.Colorado.EDU> scpinker@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Scott C. Pinkerton) writes:
>We are preparing to install a number of 9000/375's, 345's and a number of
>emulators (1750a target), and we'll be using HP's 1750 Assembler/linker
>along with the 64000UX operating environment.  Additionally we are going
>to be using HP Framemaker (Documentation Publishing System).  I understand
>that Framemaker requires that HP-UX be configured for long file names, and
>I remember a number of people commenting on this subject a while back,
>in a general sense.
>    (Now that I really care) What experiences have people had with
>HP-UX 7.0 using long file names?  I'm particularily interested in any
>compatibility issues with the Logic Systems Division products - 
>In circuit Emulators, Software Performance Analyzer, 1750a Assembler/Linker
>or even other CASE tools such as Cadre Teamwork, or softbench.
>
>Thanks for any inputs/experiences!

Long file names are WONDERFULL!!!!  About the only thing I've had to worry
about is moving files to other vendors systems.  Not all (and AT&T is one,
I'm ashamed to say) systems support long file names, and I've had to go in 
and shorten names prior to moving them over.  Now the receiving system
will not generally reject the file, just truncate it, but that can cause
serious problems if you have something like this:

this_is_file_name_number_1
this_is_file_name_number_2

What you end up with on the non-long file name system is ONE file called:

this_is_file_

since the second file is just going to overlay the first, since the short
file names system thinks they are the same file :-{


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