Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!homxc!bgt
From: bgt@homxc.UUCP (B.TONGUE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy 6000: brain-damaged uucp
Summary: Just call..
Message-ID: <4207@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 12:03:11 GMT
References: <7615@dasys1.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <7615@dasys1.UUCP>, jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
-> 
-> 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?

Why, just call Tandy Training and Support!  They'll be happy to
refer you to Texas!!! 
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