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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names
Message-ID: <1671@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 00:56:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdc.1671
Posted: Sun Apr 26 00:56:36 1987
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Keywords: VMS Rooted directories
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Summary: won't work under our Eunice

In article <724@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry) writes:
< >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
< 
< 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/ ?)

This works fine under DCL.

I tried it under Eunice -- a bust.  Yes, I created a system logical name and
used assign/trans=conceal.  Yes, I put the name in sys$system:root.  Eunice
"knew" what the logical name meant but still refused to go or make directories
deeper than 8 levels relative to the device top level directory [0,0].  She
would go one level deeper but no more in accessing directories put there
using DCL IF she was given a full UNIX pathname, but I couldn't cd into
those directories.  Also a "pwd" would print out the pathname as it would
have if the logical name had never been used.  Apparently, Eunice translates
concealed logical names too.  <sigh>

Probably better to have [news] be an actual top level directory on the
disk.  Eunice can handle that just fine.

< ...Rick			perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP, perry@vuvaxcom.BITNET
< Dr. Rick Perry, Department of Electrical Engineering
< Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, 215-645-4224
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