On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Jeff Vance wrote:
 
> It was relatively easy for us to add an error message indicating that HFS
> syntax
> is not supported vs. changing the code and doing lots of testing to
> ensure that a subsystem correctly supports HFS names.  An alternative was
> to not change the subsystem at all, in which case you would see a
> bizzare MPE filename syntax error.  We wanted you to see a meaningful
> error message but didn't have the time to really solve the problems.
>
> This topic is one of the pre-submitted MPE Technical Roundtable questions.
> And here is a pre-submitted answer, which may spur further discussion:
>
>   Fixing subsystems or CI commands, etc to work better with POSIX has been
>   an ongoing activity referred to as "POSIX smoothing".  Latetly we have
>   not been investing in this effort.  My answer to the above Roundtable
>   question is that our current plans do not include POSIX smoothing
>   activities.  Our focus is oriented more towards satisfying SIG requests,
>   and critical defects than fixing what I would classify as a med. priority
>   SR.
>
>
> Jeff Vance, CSY
 
Thanks Jeff, I guess I knew the answer, I just hoped that there were
plans for incorporating HFS names.  The more I use the POSIX interface,
the more often I get these "wouldn't it be great if the walls between
MPE and POSIX were to fall" thoughts.  I realize you can't do
everything at once and so some items have to wait.  Oh well,
maybe sometime (MPE/iX 6.0?) HFS names can be added to DSCOPY.
 
Thanks for the information,
 
John
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