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- In article <7111@ut-sally.UUCP>, gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-
- > Perhaps you use UUCP, but I use DOD Internet protocols and
- > don't wish to have UUCP forced on my environment.
- >
- > Network standards are a whole nother ball game and do NOT
- > belong in the POSIX standard.
-
- This is exactly why we need "optional standards". True, not
- everyone wants UUCP or TCP, but it would help greatly if the
- standards said something like: "You don't have to implement
- the UUCP or TCP packages, but if you choose to do so, they
- should behave as follows...."
-
- [ There already are standards for the TCP/IP suite. -mod ]
-
- For another example, we wouldn't expect everyone to support
- the C-shell, but if they have something called "/bin/csh",
- then it really should be a C-shell, and not some other sort
- of program with an unrelated function.
-
- [ That is probably within the scope of 1003.2. It is not
- within the scope of 1003.1, i.e., POSIX, nor are network
- standards within the scope of either. There is a /usr/group
- Working Group on that subject, as reported in mod.std.unix
- Volume 9, Number 49 Message-Id: <7091@ut-sally.UUCP>:
-
- /usr/group Working Group on Network Interface:
- Gil McGrath
- AT&T Information Systems
- (201)522-6182
-
- -mod ]
-
- Despite UUCP's problems, it is in fact a useful off-the-shelf
- file-transfer package. I'd like to see it part of a standard
- package, though if "rcp" were available, I'd certainly use it
- rather than "uucp". Now, as for kermit....
-
- [ Rcp is not part of the standard TCP/IP suite. It may never be,
- as many people hope it will vanish entirely in favor of distributed
- file system standards. See also
-
- /usr/group Working Group on Distributed File System:
- Dave Buck
- D.L. Buck & Associates, Inc.
- 6920 Santa Teresa Bldg, #108
- San Jose, CA 95119
- (408)972-2825
-
- -mod ]
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 54
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