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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: sitename > 7 chars. (was: SCO Xenix 2.3.2 uucp bug?)
Message-ID: <10548@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 19:18:57 GMT
References: <106@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <106@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (N. Del More) writes:
>I believe I may have discovered a bug in SCO Xenix 2.3.2GT's uucp.
>I have a connection whose system name is eight characters in length,
>however, uucp shortens the system name to seven characters, ie. any mail
>or files sent to "trashbin" are qued up as "trashbi".
>At any rate, this is causing consistent core dumps and communication
>failure (at least I am attributing them to this problem at this time).
>Has anyone else experianced this problem and is their a fix, patch or
>short term work around?

I haven't experienced core dumps, but this is indeed a horror. If the
sitename being shortened is your own, then putting MYNAME=mylongname into
the Permissions file will work. I have seen a message from SCO that said
that you could use the same trick to fix the problem with a remote
sitename, but that doesn't make any sense at all.

I went through my paths file and found more than a trivial number of sites
which had the same first seven letters.
eklektic
eklektik
microso
microsoft
Apparently we all need to complain - loudly - to SCO....
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Jean-Pierre Radley					      jpr@jpradley.uucp
New York, NY					      72160.1341@compuserve.com