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From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias and the internet
Message-ID: <4522@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 88 01:14:19 GMT
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Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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Larry Blair writes:
>I have investigated [arpatxt] and determined that it is unusable by any
>non-internet site.  To use it, one must have the internet hosts.txt table.

larry, i'm sure you can get a hosts.txt table from a friend.  when i
wrote arpatxt, i was not on the internet, but had friends in low places
willing to help me out.

	peter

ps:  here's a radical thought: the quote uucp project end-quote could
preprocess hosts.txt with arpatxt and ship it regularly.  while hosts.txt
is almost 600 kbytes, the output of arpatxt is only 72 kbytes.

pps:  i know that "hosts.txt is going away", but it hasn't yet, so git
it while the gittin' is good.