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- From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: Patch to pcnfsd-92.08.21
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 18:53:41 GMT
- Organization: SunSelect
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <188bblINNlgb@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Sep3.063937.21322@bby.com.au> <1992Sep3.234229.12874@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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- Quoth act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops) (in <1992Sep3.234229.12874@csc.canberra.edu.au>):
- #gnb@duke.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
- #
- #>(*) Geoff: Can you please pretty please use the comment field in the
- #>net printers output if it looks like an interesting string? Please?
- #>You are welcome to include these patches in the next distribution,
- #>should you wish to!
- #
- #The ideas great but one is loathe to end up non-standard.
- #
- #Geoff(too) Your thoughts and intentions pls.
-
- I plan to fold the comment stuff into pcnfsd. If you look at the last
- version I pushed, you'll see that the System V Release 4 password
- aging logic is now using the comment field to report pertinent
- stuff. Client implementations should do "the right thing" if the
- comment string is non-null and is anything other than "No comment".
- The next PC-NFS will start to adhere to this dictum.
-
- As always, keep those suggestions rolling in.
-
- Geoff
-
- --
- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Select. (geoff.arnold@East.Sun.COM)
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