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From: waltje@metallica.uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred N. van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Listing of all Internet addresses???
Message-ID: <9302124674@metallica.uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 02:15:09
References: <1993Feb9.035242.27126jp@tygra.Michigan.COM>
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Organization: MicroWalt Corporation Software Development
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jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) 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.
May I remind you of the _fact_ that BSD had TCP/IP networking before
SystemV even _thought_ about it? Besides, most _decent_ SystemV
implementations (SysV? Decent? Hah!) have emulated versions of
the BSD Socket Interface, so they can, in fact, run many of these
pieces of s***. That includes "host" and "dig", as they aren't
doing anything BSD'ish. They just bother some DNS server.
Also, there are some SCO (beep) UNIX and Xenix (beep) archives
around, with ported BSD software. Fetch it.
Fred. ("Between V7 and BSD4.3, there is nothing worth speaking about")
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