[3273] in testers
Re: Feedback on 8.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mwhitson@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 19 15:44:11 1997
From: mwhitson@MIT.EDU
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, rar@MIT.EDU, sao@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:55:15 EDT."
<199706191555.LAA15082@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:54:13 EDT
> (I don't buy into Mike Whitson's argument, incidentally. We don't
> provide alternate names for the non-Athena versions of telnet,
> rlogin, etc.; we pretty much only do it for passwd, and then because
> there is an important, frequently-used function performed by the
> native passwd command which ours doesn't do.)
Sorry, I thought I'd made it clear that I also didn't consider my
reason to be a valid one for keeping it in the release, and I think
it's reasonable to disappear it. I was just explaining why I used
it.
-wrong mike
