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From: seth@SIRIUS.CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU (Seth Robertson)
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Subject: HINFO && rfc1010 && rfc1033
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Date: 13 Jul 90 19:36:04 GMT
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>>>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 90 10:38:38 PDT, postel@venera.isi.edu said:


jon> Hi.  Well it looks like in entering some names in the list we didn't
jon> follow our own rules.  What we will do is replace the spaces in names
jon> with dashes ("-") or squeeze them out, and we will change the rules to
jon> allow dots (".") [or squeeze them out].

jon> 	SUN OS 3.5	-->	SUN-OS3.5
jon> 	SUN OS 4.0	-->	SUN-OS4.0
jon> 	UNIX-V.1	-->	UNIX-V1
jon> 	UNIX-V.2	-->	UNIX-V2
jon> 	UNIX-V.3	-->	UNIX-V3

jon> --jon.


Just as a matter of conformity with the way Sun writes things, perhaps
SUNOS-4.0 would be more appropriate.

((The following string is the exact way that Sun specifies their OS
version in the kernel: "SunOS Release 4.0.3"))


Thanks to you and to all who have responded to my message.  In
response to my second question (does anything use it) several people
have responded that "Symbolics" and "TVG's MultiNet" both use it.
Symbolics also apparently uses WKS info if it is present.

                                        -Seth Robertson
                                         seth@ctr.columbia.edu