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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /etc/services
Date: 1 Sep 1995 14:02:14 +0200
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:

>Yes, and that's what I mentioned by 'workaround'. The philosofy is what
>is unclear to me... Why can not I just use the SAME name? Because of the
>implementation of inetd?

Boy... it's getting annoying now.

Because `service name' == `port number'.  They are SYNONYMS.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)