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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Outdated rdist in FreeBSD Base
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004181228520.95988-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000418184259.U3179@welearn.com.au>

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Sue Blake wrote:

> v6 works fundamentally differently to and is incompatible with the old
> rdist, if ours is the same as the old rdist that was in BSD/OS. It is
> quite unfortunate that two programs using different protocols have been
> given the same name.

If this is true then we could have two rdist ports, an rdist5 one which is
compatible with legacy systems and the more modern rdist6 port.

Kris

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