[15036] in Athena Bugs
Moira troubles with named phone exchanges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Mar 29 19:28:24 1997
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 19:28:14 -0500
To: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Not all of the moira fields that might contain phone numbers allow
sufficient length for named telephone exchanges (particularly not with
areacode information).
For instance, the "office phone" field, while sufficient to hold
+16172537788
cannot hold the more readable
+1 617 253-7788
or the desirable
+1 617 ALgonquin3 7788
or even the acceptable:
ALgonquin37788
(it falls short by 2 characters)
For good or for ill, the "home phone" field is a bit better, but here
the moira clients fail us. Here I have listed my work office, but I
can no longer use "chfn" to modify my moira data:
[lola-granola!jhawk] ~> chfn
Changing finger information for jhawk.
Info last changed on 29-mar-1997 19:22:34 by user jhawk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU with mrtest.
Default values are printed inside of '[]'.
To accept the default, type <return>.
To have a blank entry, type the word 'none'.
Full name [John Hawkinson]:
Nickname [jhawk]:
Home address (Ex: Atkinson 304) [150 CambridgePark Drive; Alewife]:
Home phone number (Ex: 3141592) [TRowbridge3 3180]:
Phone numbers can contain only digits.
Home phone number (Ex: 3141592) [TRowbridge3 3180]:
Phone numbers can contain only digits.
This seems unfortunate (and is another bad example of client-side
checking that's inconsistent with served-side stuff).
Thanks for your attention in this regard.
--jhawk
ps: interested folks might check out
http://www.scruz.net/~rcrowe/TENproject.html
