Help! modifying os to support >14 char filenames (sys V.3)

Warren D. Calhoun calhoun at usaos.uucp
Mon Sep 10 19:57:50 AEST 1990


In <4040 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>>Why have you got only 14-char filenames?

>Presumably because he's using a system with only the V7-based S5 file
>system. 

>>Is this _really_ V?

>The standard file system with S5 releases prior to S5R4 is V7-based, and
>has a 14-character limit on file names, yes.  S5R4 also comes with the
>4.3BSD file system, which has a 255-character limit....

Can you say POSIX compliance?

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