Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: What are asa, bwmovie, byteyears, clap, seal, ship? Message-ID: <7323@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 21:22:26 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7323 Posted: Fri Nov 14 21:22:26 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Nov-86 21:22:26 EST References: <3347@watmath.UUCP>, <5361@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 The stuff on the BLTJ cover was probably a listing of the commands on one of the Bell research systems. Byteyears reports the product of a file's age and its size. Ship and seal are parts of an automatic-software-distribution-over-network package; ship sends stuff out, seal packages stuff for shipment (adding a checksum and possibly encryption). -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry