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Re: tlug: Re: tlug-romaji and server names



On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> As far as name length goes, do we have to limit the name length to a fixed
> number of characters?  If so, we'll soon find ourselves with a lot of
> station names that don't fit, in which case rivers or shinkansen names might
> be better, since they're usually shorter.  If there is no limit, though,
> train stations should be no problem.

I'm not sure if there's an actual limit or not.  My machine is called
'armadillo' which is 9 characters long.  I used to think it was limited to
8 characters, but apparently not.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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