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[John F. Haugh II]

In article <228 at arnor.UUCP> uri at arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
>From article <8072 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, by dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi):
>> 
>> When you discuss a security problem that is specific to System V,
>> please be sure to say so clearly, else you may confuse naive users.
>
>First of all, not everybody familiar with System V, knows exactly which
>features of BSD (and what version!) it has or has not.

USG manuals and the SVID are a good indication of a feature being in
``Real UNIX[tm]''.  It is BSD that confuses naive users.

And indeed wizards are quite familiar with the behavior of major
variations of UNIX.
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