SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Chip Salzenberg
chip at tct.uucp
Fri Dec 7 06:45:23 AEST 1990
According to jdeitch at jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch):
>Or how about instead of silently truncating a file name > 14
>characters, giving you a nice big fat error in the middle of a make or
>something until you clear a flag? Example: Try compiling cnews and
>create the subst file for spacefor. Blows up everytime!
Dispite my low general opinion of SCO UNIX, this feature I like.
I don't know about anyone else, but to me, if a shell executes the
command "cat foobarbazxyzzy >foobarbazxyzzy2" and, in the process,
silently truncates "foobarbazxyzzy", that's a bug.
--
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
"I'm really sorry I feel this need to insult some people..."
-- John F. Haugh II (He thinks HE'S sorry?)
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