[19236] in Athena Bugs
Re: chfn enforces non-standard phone number format
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Tue Jul 24 21:55:42 2001
Message-Id: <200107250155.VAA18857@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:19:40 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:55:39 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
You're correct about all of this. We have no excuse for not
accepting phone numbers in ISO format.
I'll plan to remove the data validation stuff from chfn and make
all the phone fields 24 characters long (when changing the size of a
fixed length field, double it).
Thanks for pointing it out.
Garry
