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From: abs@itu (Andre Skarzynski)
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Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses???
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Date: 12 Feb 93 06:31:12 GMT
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John Palmer (jp@tygra.Michigan.COM) wrote:
: 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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I hope you where not serious! Please guys, try and be more objective. Just
becuase you have a personal grudge againts BSD does not mean you must run it
into the ground.
--
Andre B. Skarzynski abs@cs.sun.ac.za
Information Technology abs@fiasco.aztec.co.za
Private Bag X5018 Tel. +27 2231 774293
University of Stellenbosch Fax. +27 2231 774102
Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa