Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news
From: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: UUCP host name length and UUPC
Keywords: UUCP, UUPC
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.234923.616@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:49:23 GMT
Sender: ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire)
Reply-To: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Organization: Those nice people at Kendra Electronic Wonderworks
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I recently received a UUPC bug report to the effect the UUPC was wrong
in only transmitting (and checking) the first seven characters of a
host.  (I think the number is actually six, with one extra for a) luck
and b) a terminating \0).  What do REAL (what the hell IS real?) UUCP
uucico programs check in the length department?

Will I break someone if I send the entire host name because they expect
'x' characters followed by a \0?

Will I break someone if I check more than 'x' characters of a host name
because they only send 'x'?

Will Trudy marry Dave?  Will Marsha ... oh never mind.

Drew Derbyshire

Internet:  help@kendra.kew.com           Snail mail:  108 Decatur St, Apt 9
Voice:     617-641-3739                               Arlington, MA 02174

p.s. Bravo to the sucker --- err -- kind person writing the UUPC manual,
     but you better mail your phone number to me, cause your e-mail
     address isn't worth the magnetic field it's stored in.  
     Both my replies to you bounced.