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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SVR3.0 vs BSD4.3
Message-ID: <4038@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 19:23:05 GMT
References: <12414@brl-adm.ARPA> <4361@megaron.arizona.edu> <7499@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2423@bsu-cs.UUCP> <44269@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
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In article <44269@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>
>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.

SysVr3.1 (on the AT&T 3b2 anyway) has a Sysfiles file that allows use of
multiple Systems/Devices/Dialers files and specification of which
files to use for which service (uucp/cu..).  This is nice where alternate
network connections exist (uucico can talk directly over a STREAMS link
where cu needs a real or pseudo tty). Also the dialer (at last) can work
reasonably with carrier detect on the modems.
Now if only the C library dial() routine would work with this good
stuff.....


   Les Mikesell