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From: c9c-aa@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (Brad Post)
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Subject: Re: Does 0.8 uucp work?
Keywords: Don't try it.
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Date: 10 Feb 89 18:03:23 GMT
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In article <3305@ima.ima.isc.com> johnl@ima.isc.com (John R. Levine) writes:
>The manual says that uucp isn't supported, but the files all seem to be there.
>Has anyone tried firing it up and seen whether it works?
>-- 
>John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
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>You're never too old to have a happy childhood.

Whatever you do, don't try it.  I did, and it was most unpleasant.  For some reason or other, it trys to invoke uucp, but can't and freezes up the machine.
This freeze is only reverseable by a system shutdown.

Brad

PS:  It might not be this way on every machine, but I still wouldn't want to 
   find out.