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From: richmon@astrovax.UUCP (Michael Richmond)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: mailing to other systems with the 7300
Message-ID: <625@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 08:56:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: astrovax.625
Posted: Wed Jul 24 08:56:49 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 06:39:30 EDT
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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  Has anyone successfully used mail or uucp from his 7300 to another
system? I have set up mine so that it knows about 'astrovax', but when
it tries to call it always fails - the message in the LOGFILE includes

1 astrov!uucp ..[some stuff].. HANDSHAKE FAILED (you are unknown to me)

  I think that this is happening because, as you can see, the system name
'astrovax' has been shortened to 'astrov', and when it calls that machine,
the two names, one from astrovax and one from my 7300, don't match. This
'feature' is actually documented in the help file for setting up system
names: it is mentioned that while other system names may have up to nine
letters, only the first six are significant. Is there any way to fix or
get around this? Were the 7300 designers really so careless?

-- 
Michael Richmond			Princeton University, Astrophysics

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