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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
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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