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From: lester@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (K R Lester)
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Subject: Re: Elm on AIX PS/2
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Date: 8 Apr 91 09:24:40 GMT
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Hello, I haven't been able to read all the stuff here yet, but 
nevertheless I will speak, even if you've heard it before.
Data: "I" have an RS6000 on a network
Statement: Gone are the days when printers were always lpa0
and other such abbreviations. (I know it is still common but it is,
I would suggest, far from the rule.)
Data: We have many laser printers (lucky us), they have useful, not silly
names to tell us more-or-less where they are, dept. etc.
This along with the 'lw' ending makes them more than 7 (?) chars long.

Gripe: Why oh why did that 3 letter-word company set a limit of 7 chars
on (remote/local) printer names/queues.
Maybe it's just me but we have other systems which can and do cope -
hence the problem. We can produce abbreviated aliases but why should
we have to.

While I'm here wasting bandwidth ...

IBM refused to send us any paper docs. We have cdroms but no easily
available reader (hacked our sun cd-drive onto RS over network).

There's too much info (for once)

After all the problems we've had. (It didn't work when we got it,
and I had to help the technician fix it. He was more lost than me, 
and I'd never seen a R*t Sh*t 6000 (sorry, I'm sure it's been said before).
Anyway I changed the login message to "Welcome to Aix and Pains v3.1" etc.

Thanks for bothering to read this far. Cheers

	Kim :-)


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