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)
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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