Problem with DOS DIS front end

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From: Tom Wheeley
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:00

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A friend of mine has recently signed up with Demon, and has taken advantage
of their upping of the nodename limit to 16 charachters.

However, DIS (still designed for tPoPs too, but that's another matter)
is only designed to cope with 4 - 8 letter nodenames.  Ok, I think (as I am
setting this up for him), I'll edit the text files by hand.  This works,
but now you can't change many of the settings as DIS will write a truncated
nodename to the files.

Surely this is a vSmoP to fix?  I can envisage many confused new DOS
customers!

.splitbung (pwei barmy army, essex paragraph)     http://www.tsys.demon.co.uk
-- 
'Albert, stop telling God what to do.'
    	-- Niels Bohr

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