leue@galen.steinmetz (01/05/89)
(Apologies to Thread-followers: I forgot the original title of this topic. Anyway, Bob Lenk writes:) >> long file names are optionally available on the 835. >Lest anyone misunderstand, "optionally" means at the system >administrator's discretion on a per-filesystem basis (not "at extra >cost"). Short filename filesystems can be used to maintain >compatibility for older applications. This applies to all series 800 >and series 300 hardware. > > Bob Lenk Quite right. We were interested in reuilding our file systems on our HP 9000/350 system so that it would be more compatible with our existing Sun network. However, for us there was a major gotcha which forced us to keep the 14-character limitation: this system hosts HP's MDE environment (the 64000/UX hardware with in-circuit emulators, etc.), and our salesperson told us that the MDE will break if we change the file system. -Bill Leue leue@ge-crd.arpa, uunet!steinmetz!galen!leue
jeffd@hp-lsd.HP.COM (Jeff Downs) (01/25/89)
Hi,
I'm an R & D project manager for the HP MDS system and I might be
able to clear up the question about long file names.
Your HP64000 MDS software will work on a long file name system as
is presently stands. Just don't use long file names. What this
means is that any file name longer than 14 characters will be
truncated. Consequently, you may name a file "abcdefghijklmnopq"
but it will be truncated to "abcdefghijklmn" which is confusing
to the user. The option test software which validates the
funtionality of the emulation hardware WILL break as it presently
stands. The solution is to use the HP-UX command ln() to
create a file called "pvxxxxfile_asmb" from the file "pvxxxxfile_asm".
We are working on changing some of our products to actually take
advantage of long file names but the changes are not close to
being ready.
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Jeff Downs
Logic Systems Division
Hewlett-Packard