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From: brownell@harvard.ARPA (Dave Brownell)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: UUCP sitenames / Sys V fix
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 01:12:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 29 01:12:14 1984
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Insane Anglo Warlord	<-->	You Know Who!!

Everyone seems to blame USG for "breaking" UUCP ... 'cept it seems to
my fading memory as if the first UUCP I ever looked at (v7 before UCB)
had six character names.  I don't have the sources here, so I can't
check.  Is my memory lying to me about this, or was USG just being
consistent with the original?

On a more serious note, if anyone running the Sys V UUCP really
worries, it's easy to make it send out long names.  I did it for ours.
The fixes were in uucpname.c, to fill up the buffer instead of
truncating, and in cico.c, to print the whole name instead of just the
first six characters.  Two changes to uucpname.c, and one to cico.c, as
I recall.  (Sorry, no diffs.)



    Dave Brownell
    Sequoia Systems Inc.
    sequoia!brownell@harvard.ARPA
    {allegra floyd ihnp4 seismo}!harvard!sequoia!brownell