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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.works
Subject: Re: Codata software support?
Message-ID: <1507@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Dec-83 00:42:11 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 31 00:42:11 1983
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This problem has been mentioned before; it's due to the checksum routine
in UUCP being written in such a way that it depends on the order in which
casts and other operations are done.  I remember hearing it said that UniSoft
fixed it in later UUCPs (which would, of course, keep those later UUCPs from
talking to earlier UniSoft UUCPs unless they changed UUCP to recognize
different versions of the protocol).  My question is: why didn't this show
up earlier in testing - surely they had some PDP-11s or VAX-11s in-house?

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy