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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Honey Danber UUCP (Really: No ACU support in SVR2)
Message-ID: <6124@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 02:20:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: pyramid.6124
Posted: Thu Sep  3 02:20:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 10:01:39 EDT
References: <212@trwrc.UUCP> <26769@sun.uucp> <215@trwrc.UUCP> <27134@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: Honey Danber UUCP

To answer the question implied by <215@trwrc.UUCP>:

The UUCP supplied with System VR2.0 (VAX) -- the porting base for most other
vendor's versions of SVR2 -- included only a dialer for the DEC DN-11 Auto-
matic Call Unit. In computers lacking a Unibus, this was not terribly useful.
Most System V vendors hacked in their own modem dialer, usually for a Hayes
Smartmodem. Less responsible vendors left the customers to fend for themselves
in a haze of L.sys expect/send scripts.

Somebody replied that HoneyDanBer *is* supplied with SVR2. This was true only
in SVR2.0.4 for the 3B2 and 3B20; few manufacturers used this as a porting
base, since very few owned anything other than a VAX for a reference machine.

These days, virtually all System V vendors are using HoneyDanBer (formally
known as BNU, Basic Networking Utilities). At one time BNU was available in
the UNIX Toolchest for $2000. Now that it is a standard part of System V, you
can only get it as part of your full System VR3 source, $56K last I looked.

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