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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!bsu-cs!bsu-ucs.uucp!00mjstum
  2. From: 00mjstum@bsu-ucs.uucp (Matthew J. Stum)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
  4. Subject: Nodename 15 chars??
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug21.145443.8936@bsu-ucs.uucp>
  6. Date: 21 Aug 92 19:54:43 GMT
  7. Lines: 8
  8.  
  9. This may sound like a stupid question, but why does $GETSYI's SYI$_NODENAME
  10. return up to _15_ characters?  I was under the impression that nodenames
  11. were restricted to 6 characters.
  12.  
  13. Thanx...
  14. -- 
  15. Matt Stum                    Gwydion ap Myrddin       Ball State University
  16. 00mjstum@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu   Shire of Afonlyn, MK     Muncie, IN  USA
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