ko@eecs.nwu.edu (John Ko) (06/01/89)
I was wondering if the file name length of 14 in A/UX 1.0 can be changed or has been extended in 1.1. I have had some troubles downloading or un-taring file with long names. eecs.nwu.edu j.ko
johnston@Apple.COM (Ron Johnston) (06/01/89)
In article <10770002@eecs.nwu.edu> ko@eecs.nwu.edu (John Ko) writes: >I was wondering if the file name length of 14 in A/UX 1.0 can be >changed or has been extended in 1.1. The limit of 14 characters comes from the System V file system. This is unchanged in A/UX 1.1. File system performance is SIGNIFICANTLY improved, though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnston - A/UX Engineering - Apple Computer - johnston@apple.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------
rpd@apple.com (Rick Daley) (06/02/89)
In article <10770002@eecs.nwu.edu> ko@eecs.nwu.edu (John Ko) writes: > I was wondering if the file name length of 14 in A/UX 1.0 can be > changed or has been extended in 1.1. Nope, but there is a work-around which you might be able to use. If you are working in a network environment, you might have other machines around which run NFS and use the BSD fast file system. The fast file system lets you have very long file names. If so, you could create a directory on such a machine and mount it on your A/UX machine via NFS. The fast file system seems to be one of the more commonly requested features for new versions of A/UX. Rick Daley rpd@apple.COM