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From: DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: 6 character external identifiers
Message-ID: <2042@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 08:54:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2042
Posted: Mon Jul 16 08:54:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jul-84 03:17:15 EDT
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  A nice canonizer (canonical-izer) is the following:
  while (too long and not at the first character)
     wipe out "_"s from right to left
     wipe out vowels from right to left
  truncate at N characters

  This tends to produce recognizable abbreviations for names in the 6-15
character range.  After that, all bets are off!
  --dave