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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (964[jak]-Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Honeydanber on Microport
Message-ID: <1396@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 88 18:47:08 GMT
References: <480@wa3wbu.UUCP> <10060@tycho.UUCP> <10@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
Lines: 31
Keywords: dialers
Summary: Public Domain?!?!

In article <10@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
>In article <10060@tycho.UUCP>, lyndon@tycho.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>> Does anyone know why Microport doesn't provide the 'HDB' version of
>> cu, or if there's a difference?
>
>The difference is that the HDB version should know how to work with uugetty.
>Don't know why they don't, though.  All I can get out of them is "It's
>public domain software and we don't support it."

HDB is ANYTHING but public domain; it is an AT&T product, buying source
from the AT&T Toolchest costs about $2000. last time I looked, binary
redistribution rights cost an additional $20K, and it is the ONLY
version of uucp provided under V.3.  If you're running the '386 version,
supposedly SVr3, Microport would have received standard HDB as part of
their distribution tape.  If you're running the '286 version, it would
have cost them as above to make it available under that SVr2 port, since
the only V.2 it is standard for is the version for the AT&T 3B series.

More obfuscation, from the sound of it.
						Bob Halloran
						Distributed Programming
						  Tools Group
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