Michiel Broek wrote to Alan Ianson:

MB> Your /etc/services already had a fido tcp service, that's why the udp
MB> service isn't added. That's the problem if that machine ever had an old
MB> installation, /etc/services keeps old information.

Ahh.. at the very end of my /etc/services is a fido and tfido line.
I always thought they were put there by mbse's install. It must be
there by default since debian has installable binkd and ifcico packages.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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