On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:42:10PM +0100, Barry Hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> First of all: This is the most arrogant list I have come across. All
> the other lists that I'm on help out beginners with a short answer (we
> were all beginners once ... ), but here the beginner is either told to
> RTFM or told to pay for support.
That's what documentation is for. If isn't able to read docs or doesn't want
that, he has to get paid support.
> Regarding the tcpserver question:
>
> AFAIK (and I'm no expert), TCPSEVER is configured in the command line,
> and uses /etc/tcp.* files for security & access settings.
Not necessary. Read http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
> The manual
> files are installes with the software and can be read with "man
> tcpserver".
Wrong. The documentation is online at http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
> Else they're in the source directory.
Wrong. See above.
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