Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpclscu!shankar From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Re: Sys V wizard questions Message-ID: <670027@hpclscu.HP.COM> Date: 15 Aug 88 00:30:37 GMT References: <1488@ucqais.uc.edu> Organization: HP NSG/ISD California Language Lab Lines: 19 > In trying to get TeX running on a 3B2/400, I noticed that >after 14 or so characters, the file names get truncated! Can I set a >parameter to change this (I don't have complete Sys V source), or am >I stuck ? I have been told that this is part of Sys V Unix (hp840 did >the same ...). Yes, this is a SysV feature, also present in HP9000 series 800's running HP-UX with release numbers 1.*. If you are on such a release of HP-UX, you're SOL: you're stuck with 14-char file names. HOWEVER, HP-UX 2.0 and later versions allow you to configure individual file systems (or the whole file system, if you wish) to have long (BSD) style names (<= 255 chars). That should solve your problem. Oh yes: TeX (and any other product which uses ndir.h) will have to be recompiled if you do the above conversion. -- Shankar Unni. Hewlett-Packard.