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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic user names and RFS
Message-ID: <797@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 11:43:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 11:43:55 1986
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Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
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In article <615@cheviot.uucp> ncx@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
>In article <788@im4u.UUCP> jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) writes:
>>Given Sun's NFS and only Sun's NFS, uniform
>>uids for all hosts using it are indeed bloody well imperative.
>>
>
>We have a misunderstanding here. Given what you say about NFS the
>original article makes perfect sense, HOWEVER my (very careful) reading
>of it and your your article did not extract this meaning from it. It was
>not at all obvious that you were talking about a "feature" of the NFS,

From my first article, which was meant to clarify precisely that
misunderstanding about Smoot's article:

> The remote filesystem we use at the moment is Sun's NFS,
> not RFS (neither of them) nor the Newcastle Connection.

That still looks like plain English to me.
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