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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 talk
Message-ID: <7084@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 17:39:45 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Apologies if this is an FAQ, or doesn't belong in this newsgroup, but what did
>Sun do to talk in recent versions of SunOS?

As indicated by the other respondent, the answer is "nothing".

>It seems totally incompatible with the Berkeley version.

It should be compatible with the 4.2BSD version; unfortunately, it's
incompatible with the 4.3BSD version.

>Does anyone have specs (or, better yet, source) for the new protocol?

Check out the "AT&T-free BSD source" archive on "uunet.uu.net" (and
possibly other machines).