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File Name Differences
Header files described in X and OSF/Motif documentation have file names
that follow HP-UX file naming conventions.
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Under the hierarchical file system, MPE/iX file naming conventions are
similar to HP-UX. However, there are some limitations. The table below
describes some of the limitations:[REV END]
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Table 2-1. HP-UX and MPE/iX File Naming Differences
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| Item | MPE Syntax | HFS Syntax | HP-UX Syntax |
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| Specify file | No special beginning | Name must be preceded by | No special characters |
| name | characters required: | a ./ (dot slash) or / | required unless |
| | FILE.GRP.ACCT | (slash): /ACCT or ./dir | specifying full path |
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| Name | . (period); / (slash) | / (slash) separates path | / (slash) separates |
| separators | separates lockwords | components | path components |
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| Way of | Bottom up: | Top down: /ACCT/GRP/FILE | Top down: |
| specifying | FILE.GRP.ACCT | | /dir/dir/../file |
| files | | | |
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| Case | Not case sensitive; all | Case sensitive:/DIR/FILE1 | Case sensitive |
| sensitivity | characters are shifted | and /DIR/file1 are two | |
| | to uppercase | different files | |
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| Special | Only alphanumeric | Alphanumeric characters, | Alphanumeric and most |
| characters | characters | - (hyphen), . (dot) and | non- alphanumeric |
| | | _ (underscore) are | characters |
| | | allowed | |
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| First | Must be alphabetic | Can be alphanumeric, . | Can be any alphanumeric |
| character | | (dot) or _ (underscore | |
| | | but not - (hyphen) | |
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| Directory | Not available | 16 mixed case characters | Up to 255 characters |
| name length | | (if directly under root | |
| | | or directly under a | |
| | | group); up to 255 | |
| | | characters (elsewhere) | |
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Table 2-1. HP-UX and MPE/iX File Naming Differences (cont.)
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| Item | MPE Syntax | HFS Syntax | HP-UX Syntax |
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| File name | 8 uppercase characters | 16 mixed case characters | Up to 255 characters |
| length | | (if directly under root | |
| | | or directly under a | |
| | | group); up to 255 | |
| | | characters (elsewhere) | |
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| Maximum | 35 | 1023 | 1023 |
| characters | | | |
| in a | | | |
| pathname | | | |
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See New Features of MPE/iX: Using the Hierarchical File System
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