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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.040644.29373@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 14 Dec 90 04:06:44 GMT
References: <27519123.34A2@tct.uucp> <1990Dec1.225346.16828@NCoast.ORG> <99@calcite.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <99@calcite.UUCP> by vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver):
+---------------
| 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
+---------------

AT&T's UNIX releases for the 3B2 have been, er, strange.  I've been helping a
local company maintain 3B2's with WIN/3B on them.  Ugh.

In any case, I have used SVR2 UUCP (Plexus P/60) and HDB for SVr3.1 (Altos
1000); *neither* had any problems with 8-character host names in either
direction.  (I may be wrong about the SVR2 UUCP, it's been 3 1/2 years since I
last touched it.  But I work with the SVR3.1 machines daily, including UUCP.)

++Brandon
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