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From: jim@math.psu.edu (Jim Duncan)
Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses???
In-Reply-To: jp@tygra.Michigan.COM's message of Tue, 9 Feb 1993 03:52:41 GMT
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In article <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM>
jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes:
> dig and host are nice if you have a BERKELEY system. Neither of them work
> under System V or Xenix and thus are USELESS to half (or more) of the
> UNIX population. Please people, I for one am getting tired of seeing posts
> which say "there is this wiz-bang pd software that can do everything - just
> ftp it from a.host.com, etc", only to find its nothing but a piece of s***
> since it only runs under convoluted Berkeley. I hope USL wins their lawsuit
> and forces BSD to comply with real UNIX standards.
Hmmph. It's amazing how many characters can be produced with only one
functioning synapse.
Oh, Kent, where are you when we need you?
Jim
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Jim Duncan <jim@math.psu.edu> Penn State Math Dept Systems Administrator
"[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."
Joseph Campbell