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From: sean@killer.UUCP (Sean McCollister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Anybody (non ATT employee) have luck capturing 3b1 HDB uucp?
Message-ID: <2274@killer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 11:20:20 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.2274
Posted: Tue Dec  1 11:20:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 06:09:39 EST
References: <797@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
Lines: 27
Keywords: Grrrr.
Summary: Your node name CAN be more than 6 chars

In article <797@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> 
> 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

	The problem here is actually in the form files the User Agent uses
for input.  There's a variable in the form files called Flen (I think) that
you can modify to allow an entry of more than 6 characters.  I'm not sure
what the names of the form files are (I'm an "unreal" AT&T type :-) and have
HDB), but they reside in /usr/lib/ua; I think they're called Lsys[something-
or-other].form.

	If you don't want to edit those form files, you can set your node name
by logging in as root and executing setuname -s systemname -n systemname.
No six-character restriction applies with this.  For the names of other systems
you communicate with, just edit /usr/lib/uucp/L.sys, and make any changes to
the system names listed you need to.  This is what I used to do before I
got ahold of HDB.

	Just as an aside, I also wish it were possible for the multitudes
to get HDB.  The uucp that comes with the 3B1 is pretty pathetic.

							Sean