[219] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: 3160 Ethernet Card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Thu May 11 17:28:16 2000
To: printdel@MIT.EDU
Cc: franx@mitvma.MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 May 2000 17:28:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke"'s message of "Wed, 10 May 2000 13:08:27 EDT"
Message-Id: <n91puqsbwus.fsf@tiassa.mit.edu>
> The reason the printers name was chosen as E191.MIT.EDU was due to
> the fact that it will also be used by SAP. As far as we know an SAP
> printer can only have a four character node name. We will hold off
> changing anything for the time being until we hear different from
> you.
That is incorrect. An SAP printer can have whatever hostname it
wants. It's the *queue* name that has to be four characters or fewer.
But there's nothing stopping you from setting up the queue "long"
to point to the printer this-is-a-really-long-hostname.mit.edu.
-mike
