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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
Message-ID: <5138@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 13:33:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 13:33:44 1985
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> In all the documentation, the claim has been made that the proper way of saying
> what you meant is:
> 
> 	uucp file site!~/file

Please point to where it says this in the V7 uucp documentation.  Uucp
far pre-dates System V, and AT&T cannot retroactively say "we did this
all along".

> Many machines (and many more as time goes on and people realize the need for
> security) use different logins for each uucp neighbor.

Of course.  So do we.  But ~uucp gets the expected effect on our machine.
What does the use of separate logins for each uucp neighbor have to do
with where uucp's home directory is??

On investigation, it turns out that ~uucp is not documented in the Bell
documents.  Either this convention was invented within Bell and got
propagated by folklore, or it was invented by the Duke people who were
some of the first serious non-Bell uucp users.  The convention definitely
appears in Duke's how-to-set-up-uucp documentation, which is what first
got a lot of non-Bell sites onto the network.

It appears that AT&T has gone its arrogant, insular way and has elected
to ignore the de-facto standard of the rest of the uucp community in
favor of introducing its own.  Argh...
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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