Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tymix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!tymix!feldman From: feldman@tymix.UUCP (Steve Feldman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: RFC810 Message-ID: <183@tymix.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 16:26:42 EST Article-I.D.: tymix.183 Posted: Sun Feb 19 16:26:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:03:33 EST References: <16770@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Tymshare Inc., Cupertino CA Lines: 16 I'm the guilty one. I wrote htable a few summers back when I was a grad student at Berkeley working for the CSRG. It started out as something to do to play with YACC, and ended up being included in the distribution. I ran into these problems of inadequately specified syntax for some fields, and made sume assumptions to get the thing to work with the existing HOSTS.TXT. (That's why slashes work in cpu types.) I freely admit that the assumptions I made weren't general enough, and htable should be fixed to reflect reality. (Also, RFC810 should probably be fixed.) But I'm no longer at Berkeley, so I hope someone there is listening! By the way, htable actually did find some real syntax bugs in the host table, which the NIC did fix, although slowly. Steve Feldman ex-Berkeleyite