spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (09/12/88)
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*** old/questions.n Wed Aug 17 23:08:24 1988
--- src/questions.n Sun Sep 11 21:13:32 1988
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*** 1,4
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 40days
! Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU
--- 1,4 -----
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 90days
! Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 17 August 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu)
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu)
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*** 41,46
! I'm not sure of the exact history. It seems to be related to the
! phrase "run command". It is used for any file that contains
! startup information for a command. One belief is that the "rc"
! stands for "ReConfiguration" which is what the file does.
--- 41,46 -----
! It is related to the phrase "run commands." It is used for any
! file that contains startup information for a command. The use of
! "rc" in startup files derives from the /etc/rc command file used
! to start multi-user Unix.
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*** 392
find if one looks in the appropriate location FIRST.
--- 392,409 -----
find if one looks in the appropriate location FIRST.
+
+ 32. Are there any restrictions on posting e-mail someone sends to me?
+
+ At a minimum, it is only polite for you to contact the author of
+ the letter and secure her or his permission to post it to the net.
+
+ On a more serious note, it can be argued that posting someone's
+ e-mail to the net without their permission is a violation of
+ copyright law. Under that law, even though a letter was addressed
+ to you, it does not grant you the right to publish the contents,
+ since those are the work of the author and the author retains
+ copyright (even if no explicit copyright mark appears). There
+ have been many court cases brought because someone tried to
+ publish a collection of letters by a famous person, and that
+ person (or their estate) objected. No case has yet been brought
+ for unauthorized publication of e-mail, but the law seems clear
+ that it is not legal.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (10/11/88)
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*** old/questions.n Sun Sep 11 21:18:00 1988
--- src/questions.n Mon Oct 10 21:24:25 1988
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu)
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 10 October 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu)
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*** 384,386
! 31, I see BTW (or "btw") and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
--- 384,386 -----
! 31, I see BTW (or "btw"), IMHO and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
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*** 387,388
BTW is shorthand for "by the way."
--- 387,390 -----
BTW is shorthand for "by the way."
+
+ IMHO is shorthand for "In My Humble Opinion."
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (11/13/88)
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*** old/questions.n Mon Oct 10 21:55:27 1988
--- src/questions.n Sat Nov 12 17:49:03 1988
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 10 October 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu)
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 12 November 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu]
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*** 384,386
! 31, I see BTW (or "btw"), IMHO and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
--- 384,386 -----
! 31, I see BTW (or "btw") and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
***************
*** 387,390
BTW is shorthand for "by the way."
-
- IMHO is shorthand for "In My Humble Opinion."
--- 387,388 -----
BTW is shorthand for "by the way."
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (12/04/88)
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*** old/questions.n Sat Nov 12 18:50:11 1988
--- src/questions.n Sat Dec 3 15:03:29 1988
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 12 November 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 3 December 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu]
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*** 203,210
therefore probably no longer needed, but they linger on.
-
- HOWEVER, new sites just installing the news from 4.2 BSD tapes
- are likely installing a version of news with the bug; the 4.2
- distribution had a buggy version of news. If you know anyone
- running an unmodified news from the 4.2 BSD tape, have them
- obtain a more up-to-date version from someone else on the net.
--- 203,204 -----
therefore probably no longer needed, but they linger on.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (01/30/89)
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*** old/questions.n Sat Dec 3 15:12:38 1988
--- src/questions.n Mon Jan 30 01:34:00 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 3 December 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 29 January 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 248,250
passed by the state House on 5 February, but indefinitely tabled
! by the state Senate, in part thanks to the fortuitious presence
on other business of a Purdue professor of mathematics.
--- 248,250 -----
passed by the state House on 5 February, but indefinitely tabled
! by the state Senate, in part thanks to the fortuitous presence
on other business of a Purdue professor of mathematics.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (03/07/89)
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*** old/questions.n Mon Jan 30 02:01:48 1989
--- src/questions.n Mon Mar 6 23:35:49 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 29 January 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 6 March 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 146,147
13. soc.singles: What do MOTOS, MOTSS, and MOTAS stand for?
--- 146,148 -----
13. soc.singles: What do MOTOS, MOTSS, and MOTAS stand for?
+ What does LJBF mean?
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*** 149,150
the appropriate sex, respectively. SO stands for "significant other".
--- 150,154 -----
the appropriate sex, respectively. SO stands for "significant other".
+
+ LJBF means "Let's just be friends." This phrase is often heard
+ when least want it.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (04/09/89)
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*** old/questions.n Mon Mar 6 23:45:41 1989
--- src/questions.n Sat Apr 8 16:44:36 1989
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*** 1,3
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
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--- 1,3 -----
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! Expires: +90days
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*** 152,154
LJBF means "Let's just be friends." This phrase is often heard
! when least want it.
--- 152,154 -----
LJBF means "Let's just be friends." This phrase is often heard
! when you least want it.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (05/15/89)
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*** old/questions.n Sat Apr 8 16:49:56 1989
--- src/questions.n Sun May 14 22:44:16 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 6 March 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 340,342
Those are abbreviations for common phrases. FYI is "For Your
! Information" and IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion."
--- 340,343 -----
Those are abbreviations for common phrases. FYI is "For Your
! Information" and IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion" or "In My
! Honest Opinion."
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (07/22/89)
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*** /tmp/fo16223 Fri Jul 21 23:12:55 1989
--- /tmp/fo26223 Fri Jul 21 23:12:56 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by karl@cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)]
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*** 138,145
children should be restricted to talk.religion.misc and kept out
! of misc.kids, and similarly Zionism discussions should be kept to
! talk.politics.mideast and not in soc.culture.jewish. USENET
! newsgroups are named for mostly historical reasons, and are not
! intended to be fully general discussion groups for everything
! about the named topic. Please accept this and post articles in
! their appropriate forums.
--- 138,146 -----
children should be restricted to talk.religion.misc and kept out
! of misc.kids. Similarly, rape discussions should be kept to
! talk.rape and not in soc.singles, alt.sex and/or soc.women, and
! Zionism discussions should be kept to talk.politics.mideast and
! not in soc.culture.jewish. USENET newsgroups are named for
! mostly historical reasons, and are not intended to be fully
! general discussion groups for everything about the named topic.
! Please accept this and post articles in their appropriate forums.
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*** 408
that it is not legal.
--- 409,418 -----
that it is not legal.
+
+ 33. What's an FQDN?
+
+ A fully-qualified domain name. That is, a hostname containing full,
+ dotted qualification of its name up to the root of the Internet domain
+ naming system tree. Example: uiucuxc is the single-word hostname
+ (suitable for, e.g., UUCP transport purposes) of the machine whose
+ FQDN is uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
+
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (09/04/89)
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*** /tmp/fo121152 Sun Sep 3 17:25:00 1989
--- /tmp/fo221152 Sun Sep 3 17:25:00 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by karl@cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 3 Sep 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 16,17
1. What does UNIX stand for?
--- 16,25 -----
+ Note that some newsgroups have their own special "Frequent Questions &
+ Answers" posting. You should read a group for a while before posting
+ any questions, because the answers may already be present. Comp.unix
+ and comp.unix-wizards are examples -- Steve Hayman regularly
+ posts an article than answers common questions, including some of
+ the ones asked here.
+
+
1. What does UNIX stand for?
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*** 56,62
letter is replaced by the letter 13 farther along in the alphabet
! (cycling around at the end). Most systems have a built-in command
! to decrypt such articles; readnews has the "D" command, rn has the
! "X" or "^X" commands, notes has "%" or "R". If your system doesn't
! have a program to encrypt and decrypt these, you can quickly create
! a shell script using "tr":
tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
--- 64,71 -----
letter is replaced by the letter 13 farther along in the alphabet
! (cycling around at the end). Most systems have a built-in
! command to decrypt such articles; readnews and nn have the "D"
! command, rn has the "X" or "^X" commands, notes has "%" or "R",
! and VMS news has the read/rot13 command. If your system doesn't
! have a program to encrypt and decrypt these, you can quickly
! create a shell script using "tr":
tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
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*** 117,119
11. comp.unix.wizards: There is a bug in the way UNIX handles
! protection for programs that run suid.
--- 126,129 -----
11. comp.unix.wizards: There is a bug in the way UNIX handles
! protection for programs that run suid, or any other report of
! bugs with standard software.
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*** 127,128
12. Volatile topics, e.g., soc.women: What do you think about abortion?
--- 137,143 -----
+ Always discuss suspected bugs or problems with your site software
+ experts before you post to the net. It is likely that the bugs
+ have already been reported. They might also be local changes and
+ not something you need to describe to the whole Usenet.
+
12. Volatile topics, e.g., soc.women: What do you think about abortion?
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*** 193,194
17. Why do some people put funny lines ("bug killers") at the beginning
--- 208,217 -----
+ It is generally not possible to post an article to a distribution
+ that your own machine does not receive. For instance, if you
+ live in Indiana, you can't post an article for distribution only
+ in New Jersey or Germany unless your site happens to exchange
+ those particular distributions with another site. Try mailing
+ the article to someone in the appropriate area and asking them to
+ post it for you.
+
17. Why do some people put funny lines ("bug killers") at the beginning
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*** 384,386
! 31, I see BTW (or "btw") and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
--- 407,409 -----
! 31. I see BTW (or "btw") and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
***************
*** 412,418
! A fully-qualified domain name. That is, a hostname containing full,
! dotted qualification of its name up to the root of the Internet domain
! naming system tree. Example: uiucuxc is the single-word hostname
! (suitable for, e.g., UUCP transport purposes) of the machine whose
! FQDN is uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
!
--- 435,440 -----
! A fully-qualified domain name. That is, a hostname containing
! full, dotted qualification of its name up to the root of the
! Internet domain naming system tree. Example: uiucuxc is the
! single-word hostname (suitable for, e.g., UUCP transport
! purposes) of the machine whose FQDN is uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (10/17/89)
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*** /tmp/fo123101 Tue Oct 17 00:32:42 1989
--- /tmp/fo223101 Tue Oct 17 00:32:42 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 3 Sep 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 17 Oct 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 71,73
tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
! On some versions of Unix, the "tr" command should be written as:
tr "[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]" "[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]"
--- 71,73 -----
tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
! On some versions of Unix, the "tr" command should be wrxchangeitten as:
tr "[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]" "[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]"
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*** 339,342
cost by obtaining volume discounts. Charges are calculated to
! recover costs. The Usenix Association is currently sponsoring this
! service.
--- 339,341 -----
cost by obtaining volume discounts. Charges are calculated to
! recover costs.
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*** 407,409
! 31. I see BTW (or "btw") and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
--- 406,408 -----
! 31. I see BTW (or "btw"), wrt and RTFM in postings. What do they mean?
***************
*** 409,411
! BTW is shorthand for "by the way."
--- 408,410 -----
! BTW is shorthand for "by the way." WRT is "With respect to".
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf