mail with uucp on a Codata

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1 total messages Started by Sam Kendall Mon, 07 May 1984 16:40

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Author: Sam Kendall
Date: Mon, 07 May 1984 16:40

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This item describes a bug in mailing to uucp addresses on a Codata
Systems computer (a 68k running UniSoft V7).  Codatas don't come with
source licenses, of course, so UniSoft's uucp takes the machine name
from a file.  Codata recently gave us a version of uucp which corrects
the old UniSoft uucp checksumming bug which made their uucp unable to
talk to anyone else's.  This uucp seems to work, though somewhat
flakily, in that some letters were dropped down a black hole.

Unfortunately, we found that when we mailed to other machines, our site
name came out as "UniSoft".  The problem is in /bin/mail, which has its
idea of the site name in the binary.  We fixed this problem by patching
the binary.

	Sam Kendall	{allegra,ihnp4,ima,amd70}!wjh12!kendall
	Delft Consulting Corp.	    decvax!genrad!wjh12!kendall

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