Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News on Xenix problems gone
Message-ID: <1989Jul17.214619.24782@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <KAYVAN.89Jul14141910@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 21:46:19 GMT

In article <KAYVAN.89Jul14141910@mrspoc.Transact.COM> kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes:
>The spool directory, "coherent.sendme" got truncated (14 char limit) to
>"coherent.sendm". This meant that the batcher would miss the batchparms
>line unless it also read "coherent.sendm"...... This could also cause the
>batchsm script to post messages to to.coherent.sendm rather than to
>to.coherent (as intended).

Ouch.  The former is just a case of batchparms having to match the actual
configuration, but the latter is something I hadn't thought of.  How
quickly we get spoiled by Berklix's long names... :-(  Sorry about that.
Some sort of solution will be supplied soon, probably in the next patch.
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