Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: C News on Xenix problems gone Message-ID: <1989Jul17.214619.24782@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 21:46:19 GMT In article kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: >The spool directory, "coherent.sendme" got truncated (14 char limit) to >"coherent.sendm". This meant that the batcher would miss the batchparms >line unless it also read "coherent.sendm"...... This could also cause the >batchsm script to post messages to to.coherent.sendm rather than to >to.coherent (as intended). Ouch. The former is just a case of batchparms having to match the actual configuration, but the latter is something I hadn't thought of. How quickly we get spoiled by Berklix's long names... :-( Sorry about that. Some sort of solution will be supplied soon, probably in the next patch. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu