John Korb and then Jeff Kell:
 
>>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).
 
Me too (again).  One of my regrets from IPROF-96 is that we
didn't focus on this issue as much as we should have.  Those
who were at IPROF this year probably remember that a lot of
products (especially those coming under Roseville) showed
up on various HP slides with the "no further enhancements are
planned" bullet.
 
My favorite example for "non-HFS" support is still HPEDIT.  I
know HPEDIT is not FOS software;  you buy it.  But it's still listed
in the Nov 95 HP 3000 Price Guide under "Development Tools
and Distributed Computing" software.  Other than this problem,
it really is a very good, reasonably priced editor;  especially for
large systems (no tiered pricing).
 
We write a bunch of HFS text files in our production system
using proc calls through Transact......  But we can't look at them
with HPEDIT....   Sigh....
 
Ken Sletten