Re: UUCP

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From
Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Date
3 Oct 1997 14:49:46
Subject
Re: UUCP
Message-ID
199710031803.TAA01259@yedi.iaf.nl


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As Bill Pechter wrote...

> > In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.970926195319.253A-100000@acp.qiv.com> you wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to uncomment the HDB capabilities in UUCP for the
> > > next release? Even though UUCP died years ago, I'm converting more
> >
> > UUCP WHAT?? How else are you supposed to do mail backups with
> > other ISP, but with UUCP over TCP to your primary line?
> > The network I set up in university 2 years ago still works this way,
> > and mail goes in and out even if leased line and/or router died.
> >
> > What about hundreds of customers in xUSSR with non-nailed lines (which
> > are more expensive than dedicated ISDN in the U.S.?) etc.
> >
> > As for UUCP in FreeBSD tree, well, there were some problems reported
> > before, but I beleive they were all fixed.
> >
>
> I still think that FreeBSD should adopt the position of supporting HDB
> V2 uucp configuration files in the system. (I have to rebuild uucp
> after all the make worlds with my own patches to do so...)

No thanks. HDB config files are a pain IMHO.
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