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- From: jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (John Hood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
- Keywords: Unix version (Xenix SysV), Smail-3.1.27, Waf165
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.013448.24431@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:34:48 GMT
- References: <2gRJXB1w165w@precipice.chi.il.us> <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- Organization: Cthulhu Worship Meeting of Southern Vermont
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- In article <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
-
- >First, I used your 'only crazy people should attempt' method for defining the
- >shell system as a different systemname than the waffle 'system' and it
- >works so well that maybe you ought'a make it the recommended way.
-
- Well, you have something intriguing here.
-
- I don't think what Tom was thinking of was the same as what you're
- thinking of. I think Tom was talking about having the host system be
- 'system.foo.com' and the bbs being 'bbs.foo.com', to each other and
- the external world.
-
- What you have is a way of giving them both the same name but doing
- some handwaving behind the curtain to give them different names to
- Waffle.
-
- --
- John Hood Cthulhu-- just imagine it!
- jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us
- Duke U, 1980: "Okay, so a few systems have the net started. What next?"
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