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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: seeking advice, please
Date: 07 Nov 1995 06:13:29 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Nov6221329@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <f42_9511041206@caamora.caamora.com.au> <47khvj$51t@times.tfs.com>
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In-reply-to: julian@mailhub.tfs.com's message of 6 Nov 1995 08:45:39 GMT

In article <47khvj$51t@times.tfs.com> julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:

   In article <f42_9511041206@caamora.caamora.com.au>,
   Jonathan Michaels <jmichaels@caamora.caamora.com.au> wrote:

   >my pair of (venerably) old dos boxes have maintained a dos to fidonet and
   >provided a uucp feed for a dozen or so clients for well over two years now and
   >i think its about time to upgrade the operating system as well as the hardware.
   >as my client base is slowly expanding and the dos solution is being overun by
   >the inherant weakness of constantly using the wrong tools for the job.

   I was just wondering abuot that..
   Is there a unix version of Fidonet??

I believe it's called UUCP. :-)

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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