Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt UNIX
Message-ID: <10802@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Aug 89 04:58:30 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <10793@smoke.BRL.MIL> <164@spam.ua.oz>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <164@spam.ua.oz> wvenable@spam.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
> Let me confirm (although noone seems to doubt it) that the crypt() facility
> is not available on UNIX machines in Australia, and I must say I find this
> circumstance, although petty, a rather gratuitous insult from Uncle Sam.

It may not be distributed in commercial releases, but I guarantee that
some UNIX system in Australia does have all the usual UNIX crypt code,
obtained at a time when nobody was paying much attention to this matter.

I don't think Uncle Sam was trying to be insulting, just bureaucrats
applying rules blindly rather than judging situations on their own merits.