Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!budd From: budd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Philip Budne) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Info on grade and seqno in Shere/Shostname startup sequence Message-ID: <39035@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 00:41:04 GMT References: <677.251ac6ac@simpact.com> Reply-To: budd@bu-it.bu.edu (Phil Budne) Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: Boston University Lines: 16 In article <677.251ac6ac@simpact.com> jeh@simpact.com writes: >How is this communicated to the system being called? My guess is that it >shows up as another option (along with - Qseq and - xdebuglevel) in the >master's Shostname response to the slave's Shere=hostname message -- true? >Does anybody know the exact format? Yes. Experimentation shows that 4.3 UUCP puts TWO options on the Shere= line; -pX and -vgrade=X I think the lore is that -vgrade= is (largely) historical. Phil Budne, Boston University