extended file names

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <511363 at nstar.UUCP> larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>Is there a way to modify the kernel (386/ix) to increase the length
>of file names to 18 characters?  

Not if you are an end-user.  If you had source you could attempt
it, but you would run into problems all through the system when you 
find programs that read a directory assuming it is 16-bytes per entry.

Even the smart programs that can recognize the difference between BSD
directories and System V directories would be fooled and break.

Even if I had source, I would try to add source for the BSD file system
before I tried extend the System V file system to support 18 character
file names.

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