long address paths

utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!smk utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!smk
Sun Dec 12 11:51:40 AEST 1982


	In a recent article on the net, it was shown that
some paths between systems are 16 long.  Given the full 7 char
machine names (although some names can be longer, but only the first
7 are significant [8 for news]), added to the name (8 letters)
this is 136 characters.  MAXFULLNAME in uucp is defined as 100.
This is inadequate and caused out uuxqt to fail on processesing
mail from a remote site that was to be forwarded.  Making
#define MAXFULLNAME BUFSIZ
in uucp.h will take care of this.  Obviously, the net has grown
past the expectations of the original developers of uucp.



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