Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!finn From: finn@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Truncated host name Message-ID: <9175@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 88 23:11:47 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: andyb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens) Organization: Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lines: 16 We have just upgraded our mail machine to an Altos 3068 running System V (release 2) Unix. Now our uucp neighbor doesn't recognize us: uucico is truncating our 7-character site name to 6 characters. Is this normal for System V? Is it reasonable? Our neighbor is using HDB on a 4.3 system. Is there any way to tell them that this 6-character name really is *us*? (I'm thinking of a mechanism like the L.aliases file). I suppose we could change our name, but is there a better way? Andy Behrens andyb@eleazar.dartmouth.EDU {astrovax,linus,harvard,decvax}!dartvax!andyb