On Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:39:14 -0400 John Korb said:
>I'm wondering how many people are running MPE/iX 5.0 and are tired of
>receiving the message "NON-MPE FILE NAMES NOT SUPPORTED" (or something
>similar) from their HP FOS software?  I don't know what is planned for
>5.5, but I would hope that there is some project underway which has as
>its goal making the FOS (EDITOR, FCOPY, DBUTIL, etc.) POSIX file name
>friendly.
>
>Anyone else feel this way?
 
Yes.  I have stated previously that I thought it abhorrent that HP has no
available editor (other than vi) that will support HFS files.  FTP still
doesn't handle them well either - you can't even FTP an HFS text file to
your PC to edit it there (unless you like having one byte per line).
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>