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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Gary Stern <gstern@pobox.com>
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On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Gary Stern wrote:

> I know its probably been asked before, but
> can some explain how to reset the user.name length.

You don't want to do this.  It messes up a lot of things.

> I require a length of 9 characters instead of the default 8.

Use a mail alias if it's strictly for mail.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major