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From: vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Summary: HDB considered not perfect
Message-ID: <99@calcite.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 90 18:32:47 GMT
References: <1990Nov23.080906.24510@robobar.co.uk> <27519123.34A2@tct.uucp> <1990Dec1.225346.16828@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Rhyolite Software, Mountain View, CA
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In article <1990Dec1.225346.16828@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
> ...
> * uucp --- everyone else is running HoneyDanber or at least SVR2 UUCP, which
>   gets 8-character UUCP names right....

There were 8 character hostname problems in SVR3.0 HDB UUCP on the 3B2
flavor tapes.  I recall fixing one or two in my daytime job.  I don't
remember if they were fixed in SVR3.2, or if they were not and I had to
finger it out.  Things would work in one direction but not the other.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@calcite.uucp