Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:14:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Christopher Masto <exidor@nimbus.superior.net> Cc: Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961015101249.464J-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <199610151303.JAA25774@nimbus.superior.net>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Christopher Masto wrote: > Branson Matheson writes: > > use our product. We should not alienate those who want this feature > > just because it will break things.. lets fix the problem. > It will break things every day for the rest of your life. It can't be > "fixed" unless you think you can track down every Unix program someone > might want to use that tries to stick a user name in an 8-character > space. Amazing... BSDI was able to do it... and they work from some of the same source as we do... If they can do it ... so can we. ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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