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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dividing comp.sys.att (need new
Message-ID: <144800010@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 13:52:00 GMT
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Nf-From: occrsh.ATT.COM!rjd    Jan  8 07:52:00 1988


>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?
>Is the fourteen character limit from something besides file name length?
>
>	Kris A. Kugel

  The "notes" system (pretty widely used, though I think "news" is more
prevalent) uses the convention:
 <spool directory>/<complete newsgroup name>/<4 files>
So, for instance, the rec.humor.funny newsgroup (15 characters) is stored
on this system in the directory "/u4/notes/rec.humor.funn", note the truncation
of the last letter due to maximum file name length of 14 on Unix.  This
directory contains four files: "access", "note.indx", "resp.indx", and "text".
  "Text" is the archived sum of all the articals.  One advantage of the system
is that it is less inode-intensive, one disadvantage is the administration of
the archives.
  Note: I am not the admin of this system, and all that I have quoted above is
what I remember from when I questioned the admin on it a while back.

Randy