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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: xnx155b munges uucp system names
Keywords: uucp 7 char names
Message-ID: <1320@bbx.basis.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:56:22 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM
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I just installed xnx155b and found, to my distaste, that SCO has
managed to attempt to limit all outgoing and incoming system names to
7 characters.  This really munged the news connections as news was
being queued up for system 12345678 when the incoming connection was
looking in directory 1234567.  I wish that it had just been left
alone...

Anyone else encounter this?  Am I alone in being all pissed off 'cause
I had to changes Systems, Permissions, half of /usr/lib/news, etc.?

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