14 character file names

[Andy Crump]

>>>>> On 2 Feb 91 19:03:51 GMT, rvk at cbnewsh.att.com (robert.v.kline) said:


robert.v.kline> I've heard that SysVr4 will allow longer file names longer than 14
robert.v.kline> characters.  The current version of SunOS allows 256 character names.

In SVR4 you have the option to configure a given filesystem as either
UFS or S5.  In the S5 filesystem, filenames are only 14 characters, in
the UFS filesystem, they are the same as in the Berkeley fast file
system.

There are utilities in SVR4 (e.g. compress) that create filenames and
refuse to create any that would be greater than 14 characters.  These
utilities, IMHO, should check the filesystem type before making these
decisions.


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