> Here's another thing that's been annoying the you-know-what 
> out of me...
> 
> An MPE account is defined as up to 8 chars long.
> An MPE user    is defined as up to 8 chars long.
> An MPE group   is defined as up to 8 chars long.
> 
> So why do the AIF procedures define the user/group/accts as 
> 16 chars long.

The reason is that we are able to store up to 16 chars per name in our
directory data structures. I think we originally made the storage double
the external sizes in order to accommodate localization of these names,
but that never happened. The large storage size has worked to our
benefit with the addition of POSIX.

HTH,
  Jeff Vance, vCSY

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