Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Message-ID: <7856@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 3 Sep 89 22:27:02 GMT Expires: 2 Dec 89 22:27:01 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 125 Supersedes: <7427@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** /tmp/fo121152 Sun Sep 3 17:25:00 1989 --- /tmp/fo221152 Sun Sep 3 17:25:00 1989 *************** *** 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)] *************** *** 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? *************** *** 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 *************** *** 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. *************** *** 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? *************** *** 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 *************** *** 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!spaf Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com