Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: What must uucp names be limited to 7 characters? Message-ID: <2980@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 11:43:21 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2980 Posted: Sun Aug 19 11:43:21 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 00:32:24 EDT References: <2439@pesnta.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13 The names of the local and remote systems are used in building the names of the various spool files. On most UNIX systems, file names are limited to 14 characters, and there are 7 characters of other junk wrapped around the system name to make up a total of 14. ("D." or "C." or "X." and a "grade of service" character and a 4-character sequence number). A public domain uucp will appear whenever someone writes one and gives it away - probably never. It is quite a substantial job, since the protocol used at the bottom level is both complex and mostly undocumented. I know of only one person (Lauren) who has written a uucp from scratch, and I don't believe he intends to give it away, having been bitten by putting software into the public domain before.