Subject: Bug#3961: 14 character file name limit in zoo

From: [email-masked] (Martin Schulze)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:11:57 +0200 (MET DST)

Good morning Carl!

}Package: zoo
}Version: 2.10-1
}
}Zoo seems to have some 14 character filename limits, even though the ext2
}filesystem doesn't have such a limit.  I can store long filenames, but
}an extract seems to truncate the name at 14 characters.  I have an a.out
}version that doesn't seem to have the same problem, but I am not sure
}if I had compiled it, or had gotten it from a very old slackware install.

As zoo comes from DOS I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to
support long filenames.

Regards,

	Joey

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:15:57 +0200 (MET DST)

> As zoo comes from DOS I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to

If this is a valid argument for you you might restrict to 8.3 .

E

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From: Dan Stromberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:48:38 -0700

> As zoo comes from DOS I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to

zoo comes from Rahul Dhesi, and was designed from the ground up to be
cross-platform, albeit particularly for use with CBIP.

The 14 character limitation is probably a rudiment of linux's roots in
minix-386.