[comp.mail.uucp] Truncated host name

finn@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy Behrens) (07/09/88)

We have just upgraded our mail machine to an Altos 3068 running System
V (release 2) Unix.  Now our uucp neighbor doesn't recognize us: uucico
is truncating our 7-character site name to 6 characters.  Is this
normal for System V?  Is it reasonable?

Our neighbor is using HDB on a 4.3 system.  Is there any way to tell
them that this 6-character name really is *us*?  (I'm thinking of a
mechanism like the L.aliases file).

I suppose we could change our name, but is there a better way?


					Andy Behrens

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