Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!pogo!curtc
From: curtc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curtis Charles)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Questions from the Soviets about UNIX
Message-ID: <6598@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 89 17:42:18 GMT
References: <1277@orion.cf.uci.edu> <1411@cps3xx.UUCP> <8901021731.AA00231@beaches.hub.toronto.edu> <502@solaris.UUCP>
Reply-To: curtc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curtis Charles)
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In article <502@solaris.UUCP> wyle@inf.ethz.ch writes:
>My bank accepts rubles, as many as I want to exchange.
>..... Zurich, Switzerland

VERY INTERESTING! I thought it was a CRIME to carry rubles from the
Soviet Union, which would lead to the interesting question of how one
gets rubles to exchange in the first place.  Further, what does the bank
do with them after they're exchanged? Do the Soviets accept them from
external sources? And what exchange rate does the bank use; there is no
international market for rubles. 

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