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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: GETTYDEFS, etc. (babbling getty)
Message-ID: <178@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 22:06:11 GMT
References: <142@mccc.UUCP> <564@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> <10321@mimsy.UUCP> <148@mccc.UUCP> <39831@sun.uucp> <14002@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <14002@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>I have Chris Torek's mods installed on a 4.3BSD system.
>>> and why AT&T didn't provide it?)
>Easy.  Without these mods I would be forced to buy more telephone lines.

Well, that's true; but I suspect that AT&T's oversight is more due to the
fact that AT&T people don't have to worry about phone lines.  Thus they
have little personal reason to invest time in software that minimizes phone
line usage.
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Chip Salzenberg                 UUCP: "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
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