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From: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: SysVr2 to HDB with a long name, how to setup?
Message-ID: <8437@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 88 16:44:40 GMT
References: <189@visenix.UUCP> <4631@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: jrmacmillan@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan)
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In article <4631@umix.cc.umich.edu> honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
|you have it backwards -- it's the other uucps that have trouble with
|long host names.  with honey danber, 14 or fewer is no problem.

I think that's what he means...I had a similar problem with my home machine.
It was called 'paradox' but since it's own uucp could only handle 6 chars,
it thought it was 'parado'.  This was no problem calling in to other sites
that could only handle six, but systems that could handle more didn't
recognize me.

I believe that the folks at the other end had to do some sendmail magic
for me, but I don't know.  I, too, would like to hear about a general
solution (other than "get HDB"; I've tried).
-- 
John R. MacMillan
jrmacmillan@dragon.waterloo.edu		If the universe fits, wear it.
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