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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 1996 15:00:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Subject:   Re: cu(1) stopped working?
Message-ID:  <199607211300.PAA06413@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607211240.IAA21730@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Jul 21, 96 08:40:14 am"

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As Louis A. Mamakos wrote:

> It's pretty suprising, since we all "know" that tip and cu have both
> used /etc/remote for years.

Yes, lacking something better. ;-)  We decided that the Taylor version
is much more powerful (even more than the HDB UUCP version), and
stopped aliasing tip(1) to cu before FreeBSD 2.0.5.

>  In fact, the tip(1) man page even covers
> cu, which furthers confusion for the unsuspecting UNIX user.

This should be removed.  However, ``man cu'' yields the correct man
page.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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