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From: finn@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Truncated host name
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Date: 8 Jul 88 23:11:47 GMT
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Reply-To: andyb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens)
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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
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