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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Misgivings about HoneyDanBer
Message-ID: <14505@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 21:40:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 21:40:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 16:44:57 EDT
Reply-To: gam@amdahl.amdahl.com (Gordon A. Moffett)
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I'm really delighted with HoneyDanBer: the job grading, the
intellegent handling of various kinds of modems, the greater
organization of files under /usr/spool/uucp, the more readable
filenames in /usr/lib/uucp.  Great stuff!

But I am disappointed about the disappearance of /usr/lib/uucp/ADMIN,
which used to hold the text descriptions of the site names,
reported by the -v flag of uuname.  uuname now has no -v flag.

What now?  I'm considering restoring the -v flag to uuname, and
changing the file name (in the HDB tradition) to 'Descriptions'
or something like that.  Anybody else out there deal with this
problem?  I think the users should be able to get information
about the sites than just a list of their names.  Comments/suggestions?

I was also disappointed to see LOGFILE go away, replaced
by individual files under /usr/spool/uucp/.Log.  Well,
it *is* nice to compartmentalize the log files by site
and by command as they did, but now the continuous history
is lost.  That is to say, you can't get a straight chronological
list out of the /usr/spool/uucp/.Log files.  I've resolved
this by creating a file /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/logfile, which
is the same as all the stuff under .Log but in chronological
order.  The files under .Log are retained, for convienience.

But this is not to say HDB is a bad thing.  It's great!
Pick yourself up a copy today!
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett                             gam@amdahl.amdahl.com

 ~ Let us break these bonds assunder! ~
 ~ Let us cast these yokes away from us! ~