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From: romain@pyramid.pyramid.com (Romain Kang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UUCP `x' protocol
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Date: 16 Jan 90 02:46:06 GMT
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'x' protocol makes some assumptions that turn out to impractical in the
real X.25 world: first, the network will transparently pass 8-bit data,
and second, a zero-length write() will be propogated end-to-end.  As
Peter Honeyman once said, it's a good thing no one uses it.