Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!andante!alice!debra
From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO telinit bug (Was: Re: Trouble with uucp/cu/dialing sharing a phone line)
Keywords: SCO,inittab,telinit
Message-ID: <8605@alice.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 17:26:21 GMT
References: <517@uceng.UC.EDU> <358@ispi.UUCP> <10@estinc.UUCP> <17386@conexch.UUCP>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
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Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <17386@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
>In article <10@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>>...
>...  Why don't they just compile the
>AT&T SysV init source code and become fully compatible (and functional)
>instead of clinging to their old Sys III /etc/ttys junk?

Actually, it's worse than that: the REAL System III already had /etc/initab,
though not 100% identical to System V.
For /etc/ttys you have to go back even further in history. 

Paul.
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