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From: perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names
Message-ID: <724@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 04:53:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 04:53:36 1987
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Reply-To: perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry)
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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Keywords: VMS Rooted directories
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In article <1082@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) 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
>(do I see Erik Fair's work in that name?).  This is because on VMS,
>the directory name would be 
>
>	DISK:[EUNICE.USR.SPOOL.NEWS.COMP.SYS.IBM.PC.DIGEST]
>
>and VMS only allows subdirectories to be eight levels deep.

   Perhaps you can get around this by defining a logical name for a
directory such that the top level newsgroups will be the first level of
sub-directory, e.g.

$ assign/translation=conceal  _hsc000$dua0:[eunice.usr.spool.news.]  news
(note:		 use physical ^^^ device name       	    need ^ that .)

Then  news:[comp], news:[comp.sys], etc. would be the newsgroup locations,
and you can then have groups up to 8 levels deep.  I'm not too familiar
with the Eunice parts of the news software, but I presume that somehow
SPOOLDIR could be defined using a NEWS: logical name like this (/news/ ?)

...Rick			perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP, perry@vuvaxcom.BITNET

Dr. Rick Perry, Department of Electrical Engineering
Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, 215-645-4224