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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] BerkNet
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:26:16 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411270521200.30791@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14353.1416983329@cesium.clock.org>

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> I suspect that BerkNet's colon separator for host:file was how the rcp 
> command got that syntax, and probably how ssh inherited it.

That could also explain why ACSnet's first incarnation also used a colon 
separator (you'll see me as "dave:csu40" in some early AUUGN editions; 
that's me at the University of NSW Computing Services Unit 11/40).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21  1:32 [TUHS] 2.10 Jacob Ritorto
2014-11-21  1:56 ` Nick Downing
     [not found] ` <CA+oaVqwGKiOPKm8Bz62Z0s9dEYiAbTXR9=WrQyjqGFX-uaYmjQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-21  3:25   ` Jacob Ritorto
2014-11-21  3:36     ` Cory Smelosky
2014-11-21  4:02       ` Cory Smelosky
2014-11-21  4:43 ` Clem Cole
2014-11-21  4:55   ` Cory Smelosky
2014-11-21  5:46     ` Clem Cole
2014-11-21  6:07       ` Cory Smelosky
2014-11-26  6:28         ` [TUHS] BerkNet Erik E. Fair
2014-11-26  6:48           ` Cory Smelosky
2014-11-27 16:42             ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-11-29 16:38               ` Clem Cole
2014-11-26 18:24           ` Clem Cole
2014-11-26 18:35             ` Dan Cross
2014-11-26 20:03               ` Clem Cole
2014-11-26 18:26           ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-11-21  6:13       ` [TUHS] 2.10 Jacob Ritorto
2014-11-21 13:06         ` Clem Cole
2014-11-26 18:49 [TUHS] BerkNet Noel Chiappa
2014-11-26 20:16 ` Clem Cole
2014-11-27 20:40   ` Dave Horsfall
2014-11-29 16:39     ` Clem Cole
2014-11-26 23:33 ` Jesus Cea
2014-11-27 14:38 Noel Chiappa
2014-11-29 16:34 ` Clem Cole

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