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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Line disciplines (was: "UNIX Programming on the 80286/80386")
Keywords: Any good documentation on Line Disciplines
Message-ID: <337@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 03:17:15 GMT
References: <322@cocktrice.UUCP> <391@ftp.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>While I'm on the subject, why is there is SLIP code for BSD 4.3, 4.2 and
>SUN OS but none for SysV ?

Because there's standard IP in 4.3BSD, 4.2BSD, and SunOS, but none for
System V.  You have to get networking implementations from a third
party, or from your vendor if they've added it to System V.  As I
remember, at least one of the third-party implementations - the
Convergent/Lachman one for S5R3 - *does* include SLIP....

>Is it that AT&T wants everyone to use UUCP so that their phone bills
>will pay for future development projects ?

Oh?  Are you asserting that you can send things over dial-up SLIP (e.g.,
running SMTP over TCP over IP) faster than you can over dial-up UUCP?  If
not, your phone bills aren't going to go down....