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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 21:05:13 GMT
  4. Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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  6. X-RFC822-From: Brian McKeever <MCKEEVER@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
  7. From: Brian McKeever <MCKEEVER@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
  8. Subject: Re: TCPDUMP and the ETHERS file.
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  12. Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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  16.  
  17. >>>> It obediently translates Cecil's Ethernet address into the name Cecil when
  18. >>>> it displays the packets.  Anybody know what's going on?
  19.  
  20. >>>     The name is case-sensitive. Put it in lower case.
  21.  
  22. >> oops...  I should have guessed that since it is probably written in C.
  23.  
  24. >     Don't damn the C language just because a few (thousand) UNIX
  25. > programmers' can't write case-insensitive comparisions.
  26.  
  27. :-)
  28.  
  29. Did I damn anything?  I just stated that I should have thought of that.  A
  30. little case-sensitive ourselves are we?  ;-)
  31.  
  32. --Brian
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