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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.163107.16449@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu> <5JG5B9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 16:31:07 GMT

In article <5JG5B9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Opinions vary on this.  We've had no shortage of "went in fine, no problems"
>
>Probably from BSD sites. System V/386 requires hacking the free space scripts.

No, from System V sites too.  There *is* a peculiar belief in some quarters
of academia that System V doesn't exist, but we've never subscribed to it.
We don't have many of them around here, but we do have one or two, and they
were supplemented with several elsewhere during our beta test.  The problems
they reported, we fixed.  On some fraction of System Vs, it goes in cleanly.

I admit to being somewhat dismayed at how much stupid variability there is
in System V df output format.  The System V spacefor we ship was built with
advice from some contacts within the AT&T System V empire, and it worked on
all the System Vs we had handy, but it looks like everybody messes with the
df output format.
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