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From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To: Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM>
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Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5?
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What about something really, really useful like a tar that will tarball
the dev files with 32bit minor numbers?

On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Rob Miracle wrote:

> >  Better than that, I've been hand patching 2.2-stable for some time now
> >to support longer usernames
> 
> >> Doug (who would really like to see this done :)
> 
> What about something really useful, like 4 byte UIDs?
> 
> Rob
> 
>