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[John Summerfield]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09:57, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Rus's is the standard way, and RH used to do it that way. Then it decided
> > to be different.
>
> is this "standard" document anywhere. there is a difference between
> standard and convention

There are both formal and informal standards. Either way, my choice of words 
is appropriate.
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/guides/nag2/x-087-2-uucp.config.files.html
http://k12linux.org/network.html

For some time this was _the_ source of wisdom on networking Linux. I had tbe 
book before I every used Linux.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/linux/net/nag.html


As I said before, Red Hat used to do it that way too. Doing it differently 
leads to confusion as we've already seen.



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