RFC810

[Steve Feldman]

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