Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!julian!uwovax!52032_2326
From: 52032_2326@uwovax.uwo.ca (Mark Hartwell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Does anyone know of problems with mailers and '$' in Usernames ???
Message-ID: <481@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 10 Jul 88 18:07:18 GMT
References: <8852793512.2040025f.DSTEVENS>
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Organisation: Hartwell Systems, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada

In article <8852793512.2040025f.DSTEVENS>, DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens) writes:
> 
> 	We've set up our username formats to use "$" in them (ie foo$bar could
>  be a username)....
>  ....  After all RFC822 does not say that a username can't have a '$' in it.
> 
	Be warned that VMS also treats an embedded "$" as a special 
character.  I recall reading that VAX warns users that the dollar sign 
is a reserved character, for MicroVMS systems (4.5 or so)

	Last year I set up logical names for disks (such as USER_ROOT
to reference DUA1:[USERS$ROOT.]), which worked great.  However, wild-card
directory searches could not "see" sub-directories within [USER$ROOT...]
This included our nightly backup procedures.

	Now before excess mail is dropped to me, I can not recall the 
exact details of the situation, but embedded dollar signs look nice
but >***may***< shaft you.


Mark Hartwell
London, Ontario