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  3. February 2002

RE: Long display device names in BPCS

When we had a similar issue, there were some suggestions on this list that
with newer versions of client access you could set the name of a workstation
and not let the system dynamically assign one.

Mindaugas

> Hello all,
>
>  We are on BPCS 6.0.02 PLF January Cumulative PTF with many BMR's on top
of
>  that.
>
>  I know there is a restriction on the length of display device names to a
>  length of 8.
>
>  My boss has asked me to find a way to allow 10 character device names
with
>  the version of BPCS our company is currently on.
>  I can not shorten the device name. That is not an option. (That is what I
am
>  currently doing.)
>  What would I neet to change in order to make the software work correctly?
>
>  We are considering upgrading to V8. Does V8 support 10 character device
>  names?
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Chris Ertz

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