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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Tandy 6000: brain-damaged uucp
Message-ID: <7615@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 23:38:03 GMT
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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The uucico program supplied with Tandy 3.2 Xenix is sick.

If I have an eight-letter sitename, such as 'jpradley', this will work fine
for anyone initiating a uucp contact to 'jpradley'.
But if site 'jpradley' calls another, it transmits its name as 'jpradle',
truncating to seven letters.

Any attempt by my uucico to login as 'Ujpradley' on a remote machine will
fail, because my uucico will send that as 'ujpradley', translating
upper-case to lower-case.

Any patches for this malevlolent behavior?

-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley		Honi soit		jpr@dasys1.UUCP
New York, New York		qui mal			...!hombre!jpradley!jpr
CIS: 76120,1341			y pense			...!hombre!trigere!jpr