Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:36:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: lyndon@messagingdirect.com, rivers@dignus.com Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/27715: UUCP doesn't recognize traditional BSD config files Message-ID: <200106041536.LAA98429@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <200106041525.f54FPp6M073111@research.messagingdirect.com>
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> > >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> writes: > > Thomas> If I recall correctly, the decision was that - although > Thomas> Taylor UUCP can be configured to accept it's own style of > Thomas> config files, or HDB UUCP config files, or BSD config > Thomas> files - by default we were going to leave it with the > Thomas> Taylor UUCP files. > > Why would anyone want to break backwards compatability with BSD (back to > the very first BSD release) like this? > > --lyndon > Just F.Y.I. - I was an advocate of at least allowing the HDB style of UUCP includes (at the time, I was moving from a SysV box.) However, I was unable to persuade most people this was worthwhile. So, while we still had UUCP connections - I simply rebuild Taylor UUCP each time I upgraded to allow HDB config scripts. [I was "used" to HDB style and didn't want to spend the effort to learn Taylor-style.] If I remember correctly, and I might be wrong... but, it seems I recall a script or something-or-other that converted the older styles to Taylor-style. I'm not sure the mail archives were even "up" at that point, but a search through them might be revealing. - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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