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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.1 fetch.h http.c main.c
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<<On Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:01:13 +0400 (MSD), =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said:

> Thanx, it works now. BTW, why not make '-b' as default case? Is it will

Because it's a work-around for a BUG.  The only way to recognize
broken servers is to exercise this behavior.  We should try to find
out which systems are broken so that we can embarrass them in
public, and hopefully get those bugs fixed.

-GAWollman

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