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- Lack of documention of the uucp protocols should not be enough to
- keep it out of the standard.
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- I could document all of the necessary uucp protocols, file formats, etc
- WITHOUT violating ATT trade secrets or looking at the source.
- (The debugging output, a line monitor and cating the files in the spool
- directory provide all of the information necessary)
-
- Documenting the 't' and 'f' protocols is trivial because it's not att
- code.
-
- However, documenting the 'g' protocol would be a royal bitch without looking
- at the source code.
-
- It seems that it would be in ATT's interest to have uucp part of the standard,
- so it seems reasonable that they would be willing to give permission to
- document the 'g' protocol by looking at the source. I can't conceive of
- any competitive loss to them by documenting the 'g' protocol.
-
- If IEEE can get ATT's permission and would want to add the uucp programs
- to the standard, I'll document the protocols.
-
- ---rick
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 43
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