Symbolic user names and RFS

[John Quarterman]

In article <615 at cheviot.uucp> ncx at cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
>In article <788 at im4u.UUCP> jsq at im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) writes:
>>Given Sun's NFS and only Sun's NFS, uniform
>>uids for all hosts using it are indeed bloody well imperative.
>>
>
>We have a misunderstanding here. Given what you say about NFS the
>original article makes perfect sense, HOWEVER my (very careful) reading
>of it and your your article did not extract this meaning from it. It was
>not at all obvious that you were talking about a "feature" of the NFS,

>From my first article, which was meant to clarify precisely that
misunderstanding about Smoot's article:

> The remote filesystem we use at the moment is Sun's NFS,
> not RFS (neither of them) nor the Newcastle Connection.

That still looks like plain English to me.
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