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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet?
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Date: Wed, 28-May-86 00:51:59 EDT
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In article <2070@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>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.)
>>[...]

Can it?  I thought I caught a reference in an article a couple of weeks ago
that noted that someone was able to hack the source.  If so, and anyone has
a copy I would greatly appreciate it if you could pass it on.

Thanks

Ben Broder
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P.S.
If there is really some limitation that prevents it from working on 16bit
machines, couldn't it be hacked to use temporary disk files?