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- Path: quijote.in-berlin.de!hajo
- Date: 04 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
- From: hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Message-ID: <60Fr7YA4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de>
- References: <4cce5p$605@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
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- Salem Reyen writes:
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- > Currently, there are only two brands of modems (MultiTech and Microcom)
- > provides the UUCP feature for UNIX. Is this a "must-have" feature for a
- > modem using under Unix environment? How useful is it in real life?
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- I think you mean spoofing? If you want to get an original VAX for free, for
- your private home museum, you might need it. Standard Unix boxes run a full
- implementation of uucp (Taylor) today and won't need it any longer.
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- Don't turn down that idea with the VAX - with all its terminals that you
- might get for free as well, it would allow you to read news in bed, in the
- kitchen, the toilet, the bathroom...
-
- hajo
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