Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rick From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: SVR3.0 vs BSD4.3 Message-ID: <44269@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: 22 Mar 88 19:08:01 GMT References: <12414@brl-adm.ARPA> <4361@megaron.arizona.edu> <7499@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2423@bsu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 15 Summary: hdb vs. 4.3bsd uucp In my biased opinion, HDB has 3 major advantages over the 4.3bsd uucp. 1) The Permissions file 2) The Dialers file 3) Subdirectories per site. 4.3 aleady has almost all of the other good ideas the HDB did. The subdirecories are coming soon. The Dialers are coming soon. The Permissions file is coming some day. It is my stated goal to make the 4.3bsd uucp do everything HDB does without using any of the HDB code. ---rick