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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: --- Moving up from ix/386 to 386BSD !?! ---
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 18:56:24 GMT
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In article <1993Mar29.114424.16780@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
>In article <1993Mar29.085146.768@zap.uucp>, fortin@zap.uucp (Denis Fortin) writes:
>[...]

	...

>|> c) I assume 386BSD doesn't come with HDB uucp.  Which uucp comes with
>|>    it?  The old "L.sys" style uucp?  Any surprises in that area?
>
>It uses Taylor uucp, the one which is distributed by GNU. I recommend
>getting the latest package from prep.ai.mit.edu (or another GNU site),
>in particular to get the latest documentation. Taylor uucp is quite
>different from HDB.

  Although Taylor is very different from HDB, it can be configured as
an HDB "clone."

  I set it up that way, and had no trouble simply copying my HDB configuration
files (Dialers, Systems, etc...) - they worked pretty much as is.

> 
>
>|> Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca, lmcdefo@lmc.ericsson.se
>
>-- 
>         Dr. Holger Veit                   | INTERNET: Holger.Veit@gmd.de


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