From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 27 15:01:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA12822 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:01:20 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA11861 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:56:14 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01751; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:51:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id XAA23892 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:51:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA27843 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:33:38 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199502272233.XAA27843@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Patch for gnu/libexec/uucp To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:33:37 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199502270134.UAA00560@ponds.UUCP> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Feb 26, 95 08:34:49 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 882 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > If anyone cares to re-examine this, I'd be in favor of an HDB approach. The current approach of Taylor UUCP accepting all three config formats seems great to me. Knowing both now (Taylor and HDB), i prefer Taylor. It's not only well-documented, but it's (mostly) much more rational. Well, you really need the _printed_ TeXinfo manual, but on the other hand: without the printed doc, i wouldn't have been able to configure the HDB uucp of our Data General's, too. Taylor config does not only allow for a finer control, it's also less cryptic. Knowing the keywords, you can almost guess the rest. And sometimes, even a ``strings /usr/bin/uucp | more'' can get you help for the keyword spelling... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)