Host table & 4.2BSD problem

rbj at icst-cmr.arpa rbj at icst-cmr.arpa
Fri Apr 18 11:04:22 AEST 1986


	    Date: Wed, 16 Apr 86 11:46:59 EST
	    From: Chris Torek <chris at gyre.umd.edu>
	
	    Note that the 4.3 htable still cannot handle lowercase, nor does
	    it like host names of the form `3B5' (begins with a digit).  I
	    plan to throw out the current source for htable and start over...
	
	I'm glad somebody had the sense to fix broken parsers instead of
	administratively imposing restrictions on what companies call their
	machines.  You just can't prefice the company name onto the machine
	name.  Suppose 3Com built a machine called the 747?
	
I don't know about 3Com, but I think Boeing already has :-)

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj at cmr>



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