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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.0 graded uucp service
Summary: grades
Keywords: uucp graded SunOS
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Date: 1 May 89 19:10:56 GMT
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> Ok, fairly recent (< 1 year old) versions of Peter Honeyman's uucp are not 
> compatible with some Sun (probably Sun OS 3.4 or 3.5) and Sequent machines
> running their standard uucp.
> 
> I believe that it was a problem with using -vgrade=<grade> vs -p<grade>.  As
> I recall, a simple modification to use both methods worked.

Well, Suns aren't running either HDB or 4.3bsd uucp, so its not surprising
that they dont understand grades.  The current Sequent uucp IS the 4.3bsd uucp.
The previous version wasn't.

4.3BSD uucp sends both -vgrade=X and -pX and accepts either.

---rick