clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (11/09/89)
In article <3396@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Bill (with an 'o') Davidson) writes: >In article <1989Nov7.202123.18938@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: >>It's a bug. Imagine, if you will, a system that's not HDB or BSD 4.3, >>the directories *never* exist, and the error will occur *all* the time. >>Voila - stalled newsfeeds. >Since when does 4.3 make those directories? I thought it was just >a HDBism. Whoopsie. It's been a while since I played with it. BSD 4.3 makes C.<sitename> directories. > It may be happen on uunet but then, Rick Adams is one the >major development people for BSD's UUCP (or so I've heard) I was one of the (very!) minor ... > and I've >also heard that there has been effort to make it more like HDB in which There certainly has been. >case he may be trying this stuff out with BSD UUCP (maybe I should >send follow-ups to talk.rumors :-). In any case, I am suprised that >this bug slipped by him. Me too. -- Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc. UUCP: {uunet!mnetor, utcsri!utzoo, uunet!attcan!lsuc, yunexus}!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Phone: (416)-294-9253