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- From: szielins@oracle.com (Stephan Zielinski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192459.10516@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:24:59 GMT
- References: <farrell-210193112617@bwayman.abq.bdm.com> <1993Jan21.202309.1900@news.csuohio.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.202309.1900@news.csuohio.edu> senturia@bio4.csuohio.edu (J B Senturia) writes:
- >Machine names have been traditionally limited to SIX characters -- why?
- > UUCP names?
-
- Yep. Dates back to when the only reason to name a machine was
- for uucp... and filenames in the uucp spool directory had eight
- characters o' Significant Info, leaving only six for the name of the
- apropos machine. (Back in the days of the fourteen character
- filenames.)
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