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From: IRWIN@pucc.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.os.eunice
Subject: Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names
Message-ID: <2390@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 14:19:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 22 14:19:40 1987
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In article <18509@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
 
>In the referenced article, Joe Buck <jbuck@epimass.UUCP> writes:
>>If you're a Eunice user, and you keep your news in /usr/spool/news,
>>you can't have five-part newsgroups such as comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest
>
...
>And how about VM/CMS? There was
>something about this sort of problem in that ";login:" article about the
>netnews implementation for VM/CMS that Princeton did...
 
Yes, since VM/CMS identifies a file by (user,minidisk,filename,filetype),
and I find it most practical that all articles have the same
(user,minidisk), I have used a mapping which is much less convenient that the
usual 2.11 one.  Filename and filetype are each limited to 8 characters,
so I map the newsgrup names into 4-digit numbers and use the filetype for
the article number.  It will support 10^4-1 newsgroups and 10^8-1 articles,
but I sure wish I could use a tree structure instead.
 
Irwin Tillman           BITNET: IRWIN@PUCC
Princeton University    UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,cbosgd}!psuvax1!PUCC.BITNET!IRWIN