jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers) (03/29/85)
Hey, I'd like to hear more about this, too. I have some S/III and S/V machines talking to each other via uucp, and one of them has a 7-char name. We need to talk to 4.2BSD systems real soon (like last week, but they refused). One problem is that source is available only on the 4.2 systems, though there is a possibility of getting it for the S/Vs. -- John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena] If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate.
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (03/31/85)
The only time a problem comes up is if a system running Sys V that truncates to 6 chars has a name greater than 6 chars and tries to contact a site that doesn't truncate or truncates to 7 chars. There are two solutions that don't involve changing code: 1) Set up entries truncated to 6 chars on the non-Sys V sites that talk to the Sys V site with the problem. Then simply use the truncated form as the sitename. 2) (obvious) change the sitename In cases where people don't want to change their code, option (2) may well prove the easiest. --Lauren--