>> One quick question....it appears that it is possible to have >> a bitnet nodename that has a dash in it, like BU-ACC. Can anyone >> think of a reason why I could not use this as a nodename? >> I don't see any. (FYI: there is no rscs nodename with a '-' in it now). >> - Michael Gettes, Boston University > >I looked in the JES2 manuals and the NJE Protocol Handbook to see >what characters are allowed in a node name. I couldn't find any >clear statement of it. I think, given all the different software >out there, that there is bound to be some packages that don't expect >dashes in NJE node names. Yep, Roger, and you'll find one like this close enuf... JES2; it will not accept a dash in a node name (unless you make a mod - very trivial one, but still you have to *do* something or the node tables will be rejected). And BTW, the same "parameter parsing" rule (SCANTAB) requires the first byte of a nodename to be alphabetic or "special national" ($@#), so an all-numeric nodename won't work either on the vanilla system. Doron