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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!tgv.com!info-multinet
  3. Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:08 GMT
  4. Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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  6. X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
  7. From: adelman@TGV.COM
  8. Subject:  Re: TCPDUMP and the ETHERS file.
  9. Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
  10. Message-ID: <36A00FB320NOV92210508@TGV.COM>
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  14. > >> It obediently translates Cecil's Ethernet address into the name Cecil when
  15. > >> it displays the packets.  Anybody know what's going on?
  16.  
  17. >>     The name is case-sensitive. Put it in lower case.
  18.  
  19. > oops...  I should have guessed that since it is probably written in C.
  20.  
  21.     Don't damn the C language just because a few (thousand) UNIX
  22. programmers' can't write case-insensitive comparisions.
  23.  
  24.                                 Ken
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