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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8 character login limit?!
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.961015182321.24595A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199610152037.WAA13534@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Doug White wrote:
> 
> > Then let's build a doc on how to do this.  
> > 
> > 1.  What does doing this BREAK?
> > 	- NIS
> 
> last(1).  You gotta throw away your old wtmp files, or leave the old
> last command as olast, or gotta build a tool that converts the wtmp
> files.

Of course, the longer one sticks with the current format, the more wtmp
files would be made unreadable by some future change...  ;)


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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