Aucbonyx.244 net.news.group utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:Onyx:jmrubin Wed Jan 27 09:14:37 1982 Length of newsgroup names Unix, as you may know, limits the name of a file (past the last "/") to 14 characters and, for a given category, say net.blah, net news B creates a file called .net.blah Joel Rubin ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.