On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

# Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
# From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
# Reply-To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List
#     <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
# To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
# Subject: Re: utmp file format change
#
# [ On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 13:13:59 (-0700), James Graham wrote: ]
# > Subject: Re: utmp file format change
# >
# > Nonsense.  These files are germane to the machine in question -- there's
# > no reason to be byteward compatible, realistically speaking.
#
# Until you rebuild a machine on a new platform and want to retain the
# user history....
#
# Or you want to copy them to another machine for processing and it
# happens to be of different endian-ness or word-size.....

These cases are sufficiently infrequent that perhaps a converter or
processing option should be added.

				--*greywolf;
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