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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!vince
- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.054652.1780@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Keywords: Unix version (Xenix SysV), Smail-3.1.27, Waf165
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <2gRJXB1w165w@precipice.chi.il.us> <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us> <1993Jan22.013448.24431@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:46:52 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (John Hood) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >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.
-
- 6 years of running Apollos teach you lots of handwaving tricks
- (not sure if that's :-) or :-()
-
- the best part about it is that you don't have to come up with any specialized
- smail routers or transports, which get kind'a nasty to look at. I run on just
- the compiled-in defaults and have only a 5 line paths file and 5 line config
- file for smail and everything works.
- --
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