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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: *BSD Unification? Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:50:29 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <334C3955.3F57@OntheNet.com.au> References: <860029226.1885@dejanews.com> <5i0e9j$1qc$1@daily.bbnplanet.com> <3343CF60.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> <5i171n$erp@panix2.panix.com> <5i1aav$qd@web.nmti.com> <E8A8qs.HB2@sep.hamburg.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38828 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5786 comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:60 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2960 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1225 Helge Oldach wrote: > > In <5i1aav$qd@web.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > | [BSD] networking [is] a relatively easy module to steal, if you just > | look at the number of people who've done it (including, by some > | rumors, good old Microsoft). > > Not rumors, your eyes. Just do a strings(1) over the various DLLs and > EXEs... Pity they can't get it right, even when "borrowing" someone elses code... Try doing a 'reget' or 'restart' when talking to a M$ server and see how far you get (or don't 'get' as the case may be!!!). The implementation of these basic features would be all of about 5 lines of C! Tony