Be careful on how many levels deep you go.  Some third party products do not
have the ability to parse the file name past, oh, say 256 chars, and there
are others that don't even go that far.

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Ashton [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:16 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Hierarchial File System
>
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Jay Chandru,
> > Hi All,
> > I was under the impression that only 3 levels of hierarchy can be
> present in
> > a MPE HP3000 system.
> >
> > Eg /ACT/GRP/FILENAME
>
> That is true under the "traditional" MPE file system (in which case, it
> would
> be expressed FILENAME.GRP.ACT).
>
> > Recently i came across a file with 4 level of hierarchy. IS this
> possible in
> > MPE.
>
> Yup.  For a while now MPE has had a Hierarchical File System.  You can go
> down
> as many layers as you wish.  You can use upper/lower case.  You can use
> file
> names longer than 8 characters.
>
> HTH,
> Ted
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