Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ur-tut.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!scco From: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) Newsgroups: net.net-people Subject: Re: HELP! How to use >8-character addresses on BITNET? Message-ID: <210@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 17:26:43 EST Article-I.D.: ur-tut.210 Posted: Fri Nov 8 17:26:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:10:33 EST References: <654@wjh12.UUCP> Reply-To: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 32 Keywords: BITNET, 8 character addresses In article <654@wjh12.UUCP> gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson) writes: >I have a problem. I'm trying to send to a friend of mine at RPI; >her account name is "mkim@rpi-cicge.BITNET". Now, for some >reason, the bitnet handler around here trims off all but the >first 8 characters of the address! In other words, after the >first bitnet hop, the address has become > "mkim@rpi" >which is majorly incorrect... > >Is there any way around this major problem? > >And if not, is there anyone who knows of a path to that machine? >(that is, "rpi-cicge") > >G. T. Samson Umm, I hate to tell you this, but if the address is > than 8 characters, I would seriously doubt its being on BITNET. As far as I know, *all* BITNET nodenames are 8 characters or less, that being the IBM standard for things (i.e. userids are 8 or less, filenames are 8 or less). Also, the last time I looked, there were no nodes on BITNET that had hyphens in their nodenames. In addition, I checked with our RSCS machine (user that runs networking software, sort of like a daemon) at UORVM, our BITNET site, and it did not know about 'rpi-cicge'. I would suspect that what you have is an ARPAnet address, akin to 'cmu-cs-a' or 'mit-oz'.. (at least I think those are ARPAnet addresses, things can get so confusing!). -Sean Colbath "Dave, why don't you take a stress pill and lie down for a while?" UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4}!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!scco BITNET: SCCO@UORVM