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Article #3121Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
From: Vince Skahan
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:46
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:46
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jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (John Hood) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us>
>vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>>First, I used your 'only crazy people should attempt' method for defining the
>>shell system as a different systemname than the waffle 'system' and it
>>works so well that maybe you ought'a make it the recommended way.
>Well, you have something intriguing here.
>What you have is a way of giving them both the same name but doing
>some handwaving behind the curtain to give them different names to
>Waffle.
6 years of running Apollos teach you lots of handwaving tricks
(not sure if that's :-) or :-()
the best part about it is that you don't have to come up with any specialized
smail routers or transports, which get kind'a nasty to look at. I run on just
the compiled-in defaults and have only a 5 line paths file and 5 line config
file for smail and everything works.
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!vince From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question) Message-ID: <1993Jan23.054652.1780@nwnexus.WA.COM> Keywords: Unix version (Xenix SysV), Smail-3.1.27, Waf165 Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer) Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505 References: <2gRJXB1w165w@precipice.chi.il.us> <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us> <1993Jan22.013448.24431@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:46:52 GMT Lines: 26