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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: What must uucp names be limited to 7 characters?
Message-ID: <2439@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 18:05:06 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 18 18:05:06 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 04:14:43 EDT
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Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Santa Clara, Calif.
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Can someone tell me why I cannot use 8 character uucp names?  Is there a 
history to this?  What pain could I expect if I allowed uucp to run 8 
character names?  I noticed that the source has lots of code to keep the
system name trimmed to 7 characters and I never really understood why.

While we are on this subject, when the heck is a really good public-domain
uucp going to hit the streets?  
-- 
	Earl Wallace
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