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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: xnx155b munges uucp system names
Keywords: uucp 7 char names
Message-ID: <1324@bbx.basis.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 17:06:45 GMT
References: <1320@bbx.basis.com> <1967@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM
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In article <1967@chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <1320@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:
>>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.  [...] Am I alone in being all pissed off 'cause
>>I had to changes Systems, Permissions, half of /usr/lib/news, etc.?
>
>Possibly - I have no idea why you had to change all that stuff.

We figured it out while talking to SCO Support.  It seems that I had
many of the SLS fixes, and had installed VP/ix.  This made the system
report version 2.3.3 as being installed: but we had never added update
R.

Adding update R added the truncating versions of uux, etc.  All seems
to be OK, so far.  I'll put the system names back and see what happens.

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