Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:03:22 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: pechter@lakewood.com Cc: dk+@ua.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UUCP Message-ID: <199710031803.TAA01259@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199710031354.JAA04901@i4got.lakewood.com> from "Bill Pechter" at Oct 3, 97 09:54:59 am
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As Bill Pechter wrote... > > In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.970926195319.253A-100000@acp.qiv.com> you wrote: > > > Would it be possible to uncomment the HDB capabilities in UUCP for the > > > next release? Even though UUCP died years ago, I'm converting more > > > > UUCP WHAT?? How else are you supposed to do mail backups with > > other ISP, but with UUCP over TCP to your primary line? > > The network I set up in university 2 years ago still works this way, > > and mail goes in and out even if leased line and/or router died. > > > > What about hundreds of customers in xUSSR with non-nailed lines (which > > are more expensive than dedicated ISDN in the U.S.?) etc. > > > > As for UUCP in FreeBSD tree, well, there were some problems reported > > before, but I beleive they were all fixed. > > > > I still think that FreeBSD should adopt the position of supporting HDB > V2 uucp configuration files in the system. (I have to rebuild uucp > after all the make worlds with my own patches to do so...) No thanks. HDB config files are a pain IMHO. _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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