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Article #12576"ar" filename length restriction
From: Dean Grover (ird)
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 15:01
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 15:01
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Has anyone else noticed that ar truncates all filenames to 15 characters ?? This is not a major problem for me, but I have 50 or so files, some of which are 20-30 characters long. I have truncated them so that they work nicely with ar, but wouldn't it be nice if then extended the filename length to 255 ? I understand that System V has a 15 character filename restriction, but SunOS allows 255. How many other BSD utilities are there out there with support for less than 255 character filenames ? I believe tar is another example; something like 100 characters for full path ? Thanks, Dean Grover adgrover@hac2arpa.hac.com or grover@sed170.hac.com Hughes Aircraft Co.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: grover@sed170.hac.com (Dean Grover (ird)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: "ar" filename length restriction Keywords: Software Message-ID: <8904250514.AA07921@sed170.hac.com> Date: 6 May 89 15:01:51 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 22:14:39 PDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 272, message 13 of 19