#: 8271 S7/Telecommunications
    17-Nov-90  08:40:50
Sb: UUCICO bug?
Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
To: All

Mark Griffith again asks permission to speak from exile:


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From rewop!sysop Sat Nov 17 06:04:01 1990
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From: rewop!sysop
To  : OS9stl!steve
Date: Fri Nov 16 07:12:36 1990
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Steve,

Could you please post this message on the OS9 Forum for me?  Thanks!
Section 7 will do fine.

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RE: UUCICO bug reports

Brett Wynkoop posted a report stating that UUCICO had a bug where any
sitenames with greater than 6 characters in them would cause all sorts of
garbarge to be printing on the screen and leave your screen and or port
locked when it finanlly exits.

This is not completely right -- if the sitename your are trying to connect
with is longer than 8 characters, this may happen.  However, UUCP sitenames
are supposed to be 8 characters or less according to my available
documentation.  Also, the UUSETUP utility won't allow you to enter a
sitename of greater than 8 characters.  Therefore, this should not happen.

Future editions of the software will be corrected so if a sitename greater
than the maximum is needed for some reason, no errors will occur.

Thanks,

Mark Griffith


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