From: Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com)
Date: 08/05/92 

From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Problems with extfs
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 19:02:16 GMT

According to LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc):
>The real problem is that compress needs to know the largest file name
>acceptable in the directory in which it is compressing.

That's why I suggested pathconf() -- again, that's "PATHconf". 

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