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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: UUCP on BSDI History? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 30 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <DpGD8J.A3@ritz.mordor.com> References: <4k0094$7e4@panix.com> <VIXIE.96Apr4165111@wisdom.vix.com> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 18:12:18 GMT Paul A Vixie (vixie@vix.com) wrote: : > Out of their way? I think it took me all of 30 minutes to set up on both : > BSD/OS 1.0 and 2.0.1. It's quite painless since you can (if you so desire) : > use your existing config files (or use it's own format. : : Most changes and enhancements made to BSD/OS are due to customer demand. : There has not been very much customer demand for Taylor UUCP, thus no : engineering effort has budgeted for the conversion. : : Be aware that changing the product is not as easy as grabbing Taylor UUCP : and installing it, since there's testing and support training and so forth : that would have to be done. Whether or not BSDI wants to "officially" make the change isn't really an important factor. Taylor builds right out of the box and installs rather effortlessly. If you don't like the uucp that ships with BSD/OS, it's relatively painless to switch. I also find Taylor easier to configure. Diffrent strokes... : If enough people asked for it, I'm sure BSDi would make Taylor UUCP the : default. Right now nobody is asking for it. (For the record, don't ask : me, tell your support contact.) Probably because the advent of relatively cheap dialup IP connections has made uucp rather irrelevant except for those folks still using things like waffle on the remote side of the chatter. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451