Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SENDSYS
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.181756.15138@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1991 18:17:56 GMT
References: <00668200458@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <00668200458@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes:
>... E.g., SENDSYS. What the heck? The shell script is simple enough --
>it just ships the SYS file out to the requester -- but what's the point of
>all of this? ...

It's for network mapping and related purposes.  Sounds like you really
need to get a copy of RFC1036.
-- 
"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
for the general public."     -S. Harris |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
