[net.wanted] len>6 systemname in

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--