Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: net.micro.att Subject: Re: mailing to other systems with the 7300 Message-ID: <539@down.FUN> Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 23:56:05 EDT Article-I.D.: down.539 Posted: Wed Jul 24 23:56:05 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 06:38:55 EDT References: <625@astrovax.UUCP> <1293@eagle.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Princeton University, EECS Lines: 18 while we're on (or near, anyway) the subject, in versys.c change if ((iptr=strpbrk(line, " \t")) == NULL) continue; /* why? */ *iptr = '\0'; to if ((iptr=strpbrk(line, " \t")) != NULL) *iptr = '\0'; i.e., /* no good reason */. then the host name alone suffices. this is in honey danber. versys in 4.2bsd is hopelessly fucked up. 4.3 is improved, but, in typical bsd fashion, puts host name aliasing into uucp (as well as into a million other products, er programs, i am sure). peter