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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix software and USSR
Keywords: USSR BSD Unix
Message-ID: <281@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 28 Sep 90 08:53:12 GMT
References: <1990Sep25.145615.29488@hq.demos.su> <4113@altos86.Altos.COM> <1990Sep26.124217.918@hq.demos.su> <7745@star.cs.vu.nl> <1584@ruu
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	...what should crypt("Do you believe me?", "XX") return?...
	In URSS:
>|#	The result should be:  XXcXimKPpq0M.            :-) :-) :-)
	In Europe (and USA?!?):
>|	XX0/imINzSUs.
	...
>the real version may not be exported outside of the US.
>Ridiculous isn't it?

Particularly as our non-URSS version seems to spell out something
like "nothing, I'm in SU"!  Jung or R.A.Wilson would have enjoyed
this "synchronic coincidence"...

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