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- From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP9000/400 and long file names
- Message-ID: <nj6ifak@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:05:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.065022.29379@bohra.cpg.oz.au>
- Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Jul21.065022.29379@bohra.cpg.oz.au> als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:
-
- >By default it installed with 14 char file name limits. It tells us we
- >can easily convert to long file names afterwards. Then the sys admin tool
- >warns us that this may break some programs!
- >
- >What may break? I thought it may be some old programs that don't use the
- >opendir() library routines but that try to read the directory directly.
-
- Only programs that were compiled on HP-UX 6.* or older, and have never
- been recompiled after that, and that read directory entries using
- "open()/read()" instead of "opendir()/readdir()".
-
- Do you use the HP product ME10? It used to have have trouble with long
- file names.
-
- If you don't, don't worry about it - just convert the whole system to
- long file names.
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- Shankar Unni E-Mail: shankar@sgi.com
- Silicon Graphics Inc. Phone: +1-415-390-2072
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