Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Anybody (non ATT employee) have luck capturing 3b1 HDB uucp? Message-ID: <797@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 00:32:42 EST Article-I.D.: neoucom.797 Posted: Tue Dec 1 00:32:42 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 01:19:58 EST Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 27 Keywords: Grrrr. Hi, I was wondering if any real-world type people out there have managed to nab HDB uucp. System V uucp is woking to a point, but I'm finding the six character limitation on machine names to be a problem. Serval of the machines I want to exchange mail with are non-unique in the first six characters. The result is that mail winds up not getting delivered properly. I also have problems with the host that I talk to, neoucom, not recognizing my machine, impulse, when I poll them for my mail. Neoucom says, oh impuls is calling in, that ain't in my systems file, I'm not gunna forward any mail there. I don't really want to rename my system. I asked a person who has a license to the Sys V, version 2 source to look at the files used to build uucp. He told me that removing the system naming restrictions would be more difficult than changing a few #defines. Apparently, the restrictions are pretty much embeded. I haven't seen the code (for obvious reasons!), so I take him at his word that it isnt't worth thinking about modifications of the 3b1's uucp. Does anybody know what the rationale for chopping off system names (including your own system's) to six characters in uucp is? Or, am I just being stupid and missing something? --Bill