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From: paulz@sco.COM (W. Paul Zola)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: xnx155b munges uucp system names
Summary: It's a *feature*.  No, really.
Keywords: uucp 7 char names
Message-ID: <16679@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 7 May 91 01:42:54 GMT
References: <1320@bbx.basis.com>
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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.  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...
}

This is a *feature*.  No, really.  It was put in as a local fix when
trying to deal with a brain-dead BSD system which truncated system
names to 7 characters on the remote side.  As I recall, the resulting
mess was Not Pretty.

}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.?


What did you have to do besides putting MYNAME=bbx in your Permissions
file?  (That should have taken care of it.)

}
}-- 
}Russ Kepler -  Basis Int'l     SNAIL:  5901 Jefferson NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
}UUCP: bbx.basis.com!russ                                    PHONE: 505-345-5232


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Paul Zola			Support Technical Lead, Operating System
				paulz@sco.COM 
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