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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 00:38:18 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4chrtq$cpu@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4cce5p$605@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <60Fr7YA4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de>
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- In article <60Fr7YA4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de>,
- Hans-Joachim Zierke <hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de> wrote:
-
- | 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.
-
- Why should the implementation of UUCP make faster modems obsolete? I
- always thought the idea of stripping the packet headers in the
- modem, sending only the data, and then rebuilding the packet at the
- other end was a rather neat approach.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- I will support laws and technology which limit what you are allowed
- to hear, if you will oppose laws and technology limiting what I am
- allowed to say.
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