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> Jaye Mathisen writes:
> > or 31 bit?
> > 
> > >From looking at some tests over NFS, it looks like it certainly supports
> > >65535, but I wanted to know if it was consistent everywhere...
> > 
> > IE, uid's of 100000+ are OK.
> 
> Yes, should work. I thought that NFS used 16 bit ids, so it may not
> work for that.

Hmm, I read (probably from usenet) today that ``ar'' doesn't grok big 
uids.

> -Archie
> 
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