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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.groups
Subject: Re: Dividing comp.sys.att
Message-ID: <8455@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 14:49:30 GMT
References: <167@mcmi.UUCP> <144800007@occrsh.ATT.COM> <235@stc-auts.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <235@stc-auts.UUCP> kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel) writes:
>
>What's this about 14 characters?  I looked in our spool/news directory,
>and there is a newsgroup there which translates to comp.laser-printers,
>which is certainly longer than 14 characters!  Are there news systems
>which use a different naming convention than a.b.c -->.../spool/news/a/b/c?


comp.laser-printers -> comp/laser.printers

		....:...10....:...20
		comp			 4
		laser.printers		14

Sorry, that's not correct, Kris. laser.printers is just exactly 14
characters long. Perhaps if you took off your shoes ;->

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