marekp@pnet91.cts.com (Marek Pawlowski) (12/14/90)
This I found completely annoying. It's not a bug, but rather an error on
the user's part. I have sciibin running on the Unix box, but it won't take
any filenames longer than 14 characters (without screwing with the kernel,
which is the LAST thing I want to do!). Some people decide to make a 15
character long filename with their BINSCII archives, which doesn't work with
Unix.
COULD PEOPLE PLEASE USE <= 14 CHARACTERS FOR THEIR FILENAMES!
This would make life real easy.
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In article <261@generic.UUCP> marekp@pnet91.cts.com (Marek Pawlowski) writes: > This I found completely annoying. It's not a bug, but rather an error on >the user's part. I have sciibin running on the Unix box, but it won't take >any filenames longer than 14 characters (without screwing with the kernel, >which is the LAST thing I want to do!). Some people decide to make a 15 >character long filename with their BINSCII archives, which doesn't work with >Unix. > > COULD PEOPLE PLEASE USE <= 14 CHARACTERS FOR THEIR FILENAMES! Why? UNIX isn't limited to 14-character names. In fact, I just dropped out of rn long enough to create a file with a _78_-character name (the entire alphabet repeated three times). Maybe you have some strange version of UNIX. We're running 4.2 BSD here--and that isn't even a current version! Scott Alfter-----------------------------_/_---------------------------- / v \ Apple II: Internet: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu ( ( the power to be your best! GEnie: S.ALFTER \_^_/