AIX LPR OPTIONS (?)

rick/1024000 rick at ulticorp.UUCP
Tue Oct 2 22:33:08 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct1.232359.4332 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick at cogsci.uiuc.edu
	(Pete Resnick) writes:
>tundra at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp) writes:
>>"XXXxxxozone.atmos.uiuc.edu".  Instead it has a name like
>>"XXXxxxozon".
>
>I'm not sure, but since AIX is system 5, there is a 14 character limit
>on filenames. Are they being truncated to 14 characters?
>
AIX is NOTTTTT System 5!!!!!!
The directory structure is very interesting. For example, try executing
the following commands on an RS/6000.

	echo > This_is_a_long_filename 
	ls This*
	od -c .

The output from 'ls' shows the long name, but the output from 'od' shows only
14 characters. 


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