Ron Stordahl wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 RS> Minor point but aliases are limited to 5 characters I believe.  
 RS> I tried 6 in an eprom burn for a TheNet/X1J4 node and as I 
 RS> recall surrounding TheNet nodes only showed the first 5 in 
 RS> their routing tables.  This is some time ago so I might have 
 RS> the details a little wrong.  Does Linux work correctly with 6?

I ran with six characters as node "EXPMTL" for years with no trouble, long
before the days of Linux.  Software limited to five characters is just broken.
 
-- Mike

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