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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NGROUP limit set at 8
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 16:20:38 EST
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In article <850@winchester.UUCP> djl@mips.UUCP (Dan Levin) writes:
>the number 8
>is hard coded into the SUN RPC implementation, even though the comment
>just above says 10 (as does the spec...).  Interesting that the leading
>implementation of a supposedly public domain protocol doesn't follow
>the spec...

More likely it is the spec documentation that's wrong, since the limit
of 8 seems to pervade BSD and derivatives.

Of course, if you're my age and think in octal instead of hex ...
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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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