On 29-Mar-99 Robin Gilks wrote:
> Hi Colin
>
> Just had a look at the current version of ntp
>
> 02/22/1999 02:48AM 4,569,400 ntp-4.0.92c.tar.gz
>
> Four and a half megs to do the job that I'm currently doing with
> 12k - no thanks :-))
>
> This is one case of sledgehammer to crack a nut that I don't think is
> really necessary in a hobby environment.
>
> If someone else wants to do it then by all means - but they will still
> have to solve the problem with mktime().
>
> Robin. G8ECJ
Dunno whether this is the latest xntpd, but look at:-
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp.htm
for the latest information about what is going on here.
xntpd is a very clever piece of software and is certainly not 4Mb in size
(not even the source AFAIK).
Dirk G1TLH
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At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find
at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
