AIX LPR OPTIONS (?)

Ronald S. Woan ron at woan
Wed Oct 3 01:28:43 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct1.232359.4332 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
resnick at cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
tundra at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Kemp) writes:
>"XXXxxxozone.atmos.uiuc.edu".  Instead it has a name like
>"XXXxxxozon".
Pete> I'm not sure, but since AIX is system 5, there is a 14 character
Pete> limit on filenames. Are they being truncated to 14 characters?

Since he was using lpr, I assume this was on AIX 3.1 (it would be
/bin/print in AIX 2.2.1) which does not have the 14 char limitation
and uses BSD naming conventions...

					Ron

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