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From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Bug: Remote printing from machines with long hostnames
Message-ID: <4813@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Date: 11 Apr 90 05:38:48 GMT
References: <1768@sparko.gwu.edu>
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK)
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>When printing to an HP 835 running HP-UX 3.1 using the remote printer
>capability, we have noticed that if the remote machine has a hostname
>of more that 8 characters, the file is never printed.  The file is

I had hoped, now that HP finally gives us Domain Name Server support,
that they would have ripped out all ridiculous hostname length
restrictions in various commands.  But no.  For instance fbackup
truncates the hostname at 9 characters if you try to use the remote
device syntax host:device.
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland