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To: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net>
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Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP in large environments 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:23:18 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:10:42 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Hey everybody I just finished the conversion of the last SYSV box in the
> house to FreeBSD.  I'm going to yank the plug on it this weekend, after
> kicking the last of my in-house people off of it.  Heh.  We will be totally
> FreeBSD at that point.

Hurrah!

> If you have a large site your "sys" file can be huge.  It takes
> the taylor subroutines quite a few cycles to parse this file.  Each time
> you invoke uux, uuxqt, uucico, ect this happens.  It is sort of like a
> two pass compilation of the "sys" file for each uucp command.  To be fair
> some of the problem may be our malloc stuff.

Hmmm.  Would you mind writing a short paragraph to accompany the diffs
and send them to doc@freebsd.org?  Then even if we don't adopt them
into the tree at some point (I don't know what the trade-offs are
here) then at least they'll be *documented* changes, and the nice
tree-structured doc that John is putting together would provide a
quick and convenient way of finding them (just make a uucp chapter if
there isn't already).

> Now the uucp box is running with an EISA version 3c509/P60 and FreeBSD.
> The modem lights just keep flashing and only pause infrequently.  Very nice.
> So the SYSV era is over for me.....thanks to the FreeBSD guys - and thanks
> Ian too!!

You're entirely welcome!  Testimonials like this (in contrast to the
usual "It doesn't work!!" messages we get) are always nice to get! :)

					Jordan