14 character file names

Andy Crump andyc at bucky.intel.com
Tue Feb 5 00:37:18 AEST 1991


>>>>> On 2 Feb 91 19:03:51 GMT, rvk at cbnewsh.att.com (robert.v.kline) said:


robert.v.kline> I've heard that SysVr4 will allow longer file names longer than 14
robert.v.kline> characters.  The current version of SunOS allows 256 character names.

Yes, but only in the UFS (Berkeley) filesystem.  In an S5 filesystem,
file names are still 14 characters.
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