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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Help (again)! uuxqt on SUN-100
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Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 00:22:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 00:22:27 1986
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Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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>>"Trouble with UUCP on SUN-100; uuxqt won't run anything"

>From you site name I see that it could be the same problem I ran into.
>The Makefile for UUCP (4.2) that creates the directories in 
>/usr/spool/uucp/{C.,D.,D.<site>,D.<site>X,TM.,X.,XTMP} doesn't truncate
>the <site> in D.<site> and D.<site>X names to 7 characters.  UUCP and
>all other uu programs do.  I had exactly the same problem and fixed
>everthing by a simple rename of the two offending directories.
>Hope this helps.
> -- Drew Sullivan.   utzoo!yetti!utrc-2at!drews

When I was running 4.2 BSD uucp I solved it different way, by removing
the stupid 7 character limit on site names.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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