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From: jack@hpindda.HP.COM (Jack Repenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: If Sun Can Do It, Why Not HP?
Message-ID: <4310097@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 17:35:44 GMT
References: <31743@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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In comp.sys.hp, dgreen@squid.cs.ucla.edu (Dan R. Greening) writes:

> UUNET is a company that provides connectivity to the Internet as
> well as through UUCP.  There is a directory in ~ftp/sun-fixes on the
> machine uunet.UU.NET that currently contains the following files:

This is very interesting.  I'm nobody special in the company here, so
don't take my interest as any kind of official response, but I'd like
to hear more about what you (or anyone else, for that matter) knows
about this.

For instance, does this compay provide some kind of protection, so
that you can be sure that what you get out of this directory really
came from the vendor (or from some reliable, traceable source)?

Also, this seems to address a big part of the problem of making
patches widely and quickly available; what about the companion problem
of informing the afflicted parties that there is a problem and a
patch?

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