14 character limitation in filenames

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Feb 14 08:46:11 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb11.072316.193 at ico.isc.com> rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> No, that's not a solution, unless you're in an isolated corner of the world
> where you can use your own tools (or customized tools) instead of using the
> common ones.  For very many sites, this is just not a choice.

Hacker solution:

adb -w all the "sccs" tools and change "s." to "s/", then wrap them in scripts
that make sure the "s", "p", etc... directories exist.
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