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- From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Douglas A. Gwyn)
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 87 11:32:58 EST
- Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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- >From: hoptoad!gnu@lll-crg.arpa (John Gilmore)
- >... Is it going to be possible to sell a
- >POSIX system without UUCP? Ditto for "mail"...
-
- I don't see why these should be mandated when many sites use
- superior facilities in their place. Ditto for the spooler.
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- >I suggest that "cpio" be excluded. Maybe they'll stop distributing
- >System V on byte-order-dependent cpio tapes if it becomes non-standard.
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- SVR2.0 was distributed on portable-header cpio tapes.
- This is also true of the SVR3.0 source distribution.
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- >I can't find "dircmp", "id", and a bunch of others in either V7 or 4.2
- >so I suspect it is not very portable to assume their existence.
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- You also can't find a decent Bourne shell in those releases.
- The standard should not be weakened unduly to permit existing
- inadequate facilities to be advertised as already conforming!
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 14
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