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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: UUCP on BSDI History?
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 20:02:47 GMT

Gregory Shenaut (fzshenau@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: : 
: : Use Taylor UUCP.  It supports a lot more protocols and it's probably a
: : bit more efficient and robust than honeydanber uucp.
: 
: I've been using the stock BSD/OS uucp w/o problems.  I appreciate the
: fact that it "looks like" the older versions of UUCP I used under
: BSD 2.? and the older BSD 4.? systems.  If the folks at BSDI stopped
: using it and changed to Taylor, I suppose it wouldn't be all that big
: a deal to switch, but I can't see why anyone would go out of their
: way to do so.  Maybe I'm missing something, though.
: 
: (Newsgroups pruned to c.u.b.bsdi.misc)

Out of their way?  I think it took me all of 30 minutes to set up
on both BSD/OS 1.0 and 2.0.1.  It's quite painless since you can
(if you so desire) use your existing config files (or use it's
own format.

Regards,

Chris
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