Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:28:40 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Message-ID: <9603121628.AA12070@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603120135.RAA03399@precipice.shockwave.com> References: <199603112038.NAA03837@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199603120135.RAA03399@precipice.shockwave.com>
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<<On Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:35:54 -0800, Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> said: > It interoperates fine with non-broken TCP implementations. I'm really glad > that finger was chosen... of course, it should have been DOCUMENTED. :-) Well, if you think about it, it's pretty clear that `finger' was about the only service which /could/ be changed in this way. Oh, FTP data connections might be T/TCP-ized as well, but it seemed to me that people were rather more likely to get hurt in that instance, so I decided against it. I still haven't gotten around to doing a Sun RPC transport module for T/TCP. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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