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Subject: Re:  VMS/DECnet question - how to get status info about another machine?
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>   It works pretty well except   simstat cedsim system  will not work but
>   simstat cedsim sys  will..??... 

The reason for the shorter command working is that the length of the task name
plus any arguments to it is limited to 12 characters.  Why this limitation
exists, I don't know;  It would be nice if it were increased.