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Conference vmszoo::rms_openvms

Title:	RMS asks, 'R U Journaled?'

Moderator:	STAR::TSPEERUVEL

Created:	Tue Mar 11 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3031
Total number of notes:	12302

3020.0. "Filename maximum length ?" by AUBER::COSTEUX (Le Plat Pays qui est le mien...) Fri Apr 04 1997 10:22

    Is there a way to have filenames > 39 characters (more than 70) ?
    Does the Spiralog file system allows a such possibility ?
    
    Thanks for help.
    
    Jean-Pierre

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3020.1		QUARK::LIONEL	Free advice is worth every cent	`Fri Apr 04 1997 16:59`	6
	Spiralog doesn't, but there is a future enhancement planned to VMS which will essentially remove such limits, with the caveat that you enable this on a per-volume basis and some applications may return cryptic filenames if you use very long names. Steve
3020.2	filenames > 39 chars	STAR::EWOODS		`Fri Apr 04 1997 17:50`	11
	<< Is there a way to have filenames > 39 characters (more than 70) ? RMS is currently working on the enhancement Steve referred to -- which by the way, is planned for the next release of Alpha after OpenVMS V7.1. RMS will be able to manipulate filenames and directory level names of up to 255 characters, with the restriction that the total filespec must be no longer than 512 characters. -- Elinor
3020.3		MOVIES::WIDDOWSON	Rod OpenVMS Engineering. Project Rock	`Mon Apr 07 1997 05:57`	3
	And to just close off. Spiralog does not support file names longer than 39.39. When HFS is complete Spiralog will be extended (most probably in the V2 version) to support these relaxed restrictions.