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From: jbs@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet?
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 18:50:47 EDT
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In article <6709@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>[...]
>Do let us know how to implement pathalias on a 16-bit machine.  It can't
>be done.  (We have local >16-bit sites we could lean on, but others don't.)
>[...]

Yes, but you can use the -l option to compile the database on a large
machine and transfer it to the 16bitter.  If there isn't a larger
machine nearby, perhaps someone on the net would be willing to compile
pathalias databases, as a public service (obviously no more than one
or two per day).

Jeff Siegal