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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: HINFO && rfc1010 && rfc1033
Message-ID: <GUMBY.90Jul13093218@Cygnus.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 90 16:32:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: seth@ctr.columbia.edu's message of 13 Jul 90 04:46:51 GMT

The Symbolics network code uses those fields to figure out things like
what the remote system's filename syntax is.  It's a shame more people
don't fill them in.