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>In article <90Jul6.144814edt.2682@ois.db.toronto.edu> fche@db.toronto.edu ("Frank Ch. Eigler") writes:
>
>I would like to conjure up a UUCP disk set for several possible
>hardware configurations that I could hand over to other folks in
>the net so they could use it without any further editing, etc.
>Or rather, I would like to do all configuring for a set of nodes.
>
>I would put all the MAN files in a ZOO file, all the binaries onto
>a installed working disk, make a separate floppy with edited
>lib/spool/news, etc..	Do your restrictions discourage this
>kind of shuffling?
>
>..  Awaiting 1.07/1.08 eagerly  ..
>
>>    Matthew Dillon	    uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
>
>--Frank

    When I took over the UUCP distribution I was faced with that very
    question.  To put it frankly, if I had concentrated on making UUCP
    as portable as possible I would still be on version 1.03D instead
    of 1.06D... it simply is too difficult to do with all the features
    I wanted to add.  Take s:crontab for example ... how do you make
    that portable?  Another big one:  filenames.  To make UUCP truely
    portable I would have to limit file names to 8 characters and
    alpha-numerics. There are a billion other little things that come up
    to.

    So I've decided not to try (to make UUCP completely portable).  I
    do not purposefully try to make it Amiga-Only, just that I do not
    concentrate on portability all that much.

					-Matt

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