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From: dcb@dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Length of User names
Message-ID: <1991May31.173152.791@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 31 May 91 17:31:52 GMT
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At Harris, we finally decided to use the VMS standard of first initial
last name (truncated to 8 characters).  Kind of a  pain :-(

-- Dave Brillhart