From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 5 12:12:00 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA25663 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 12:12:00 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA25655 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 12:11:58 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA00666; Wed, 5 Apr 95 12:20:24 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504051820.AA00666@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: misc/292: rfc1323 and rfc1644 support can confuse terminal servers w/SLIP To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 12:20:24 MDT Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504051420.AA25770@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 5, 95 10:20:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In other words, default it off? > > No. I wrote it the way I did intentionally, and the default should be > ON (except when installing, when it's an issue for the installation > program). If the default were to be off, the correct approach would > be to set the variables in the source to zero. I believe very > strongly that this would be a large step backwards. I agree in principle, even though this violates the rule of least astonishment because of the verified interoperability problems. Just wanted to make sure of the intent. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.