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 -------------------------------------------------------------- John Korb email: [log in to unmask] Innovative Software Solutions, Inc. The thoughts, comments, and opinions expressed herein are mine and do not reflect those of my employer(s), or anyone else.