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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Anyone having tty00 access problems in NetBSD-.0
Date: 14 Jan 1995 18:01:42 GMT
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Peter Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
: Anyone on the respective BSD teams want to explain why they ship their
: products this way?  It seems to me that it would be more reasonable to 
: make those who want to have dialins -remove- the local, than make us
: SLIP/PPP cluebags discover it by bugging the net at large.


Because then there'd be a billion people asking why their modems
don't disconnect properly when someone logs out.  Then they'd ask
why the system is distributed with the 'local' flag in it and why
can't the SLIP/PPP cluebags just add the flag?

[I don't represent *either* of the *BSD's]

hpeyerl@novatel.ca                           |  NovAtel Communications Ltd.
hpeyerl@beer.org                             | <nothing I say matters anyway>
  "I can fix anything with duct tape, vice grips, and a decent Makefile"