SCO doesn't sell UNIX

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <1990Dec14.035940.28832 at NCoast.ORG> allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>That isn't true, as far as I've been able to learn.  I don't know if it's a
>lie or a misunderstanding on the part of someone at SCO, but it is incorrect.
>
>The POSIX filename truncation vs. error business is *optional* behavior
>intended to allow systems with hard filename length restrictions to still
>support a POSIX source code environment.  It is *not* required, nor even
>desirable (from a POSIX compliance standpoint, that is), as far as I have been
>able to determine.

It *is* required by FIPS, which is a superset of POSIX.  That is the only
reason it's there.

So the misunderstanding is on your part.

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