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From: qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk (Quentin Stafford-Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.082751.20734@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Aug 92 08:27:51 GMT
References: <WLEIPPE@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug17110648@soda.berkeley.edu> <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
 
|> Then how come every time my brother wants to install a new program, I
|> have to use EDLIN to edit the config.sys file on his pc?

Ah, but his point was that the operating system runs straight out of the
box - I think that's fair. Most applications will do too, though of
course you may need to tweak things for best performance.

Mind you, if you must use EDLIN, then anything seems complex... :-)



Quentin


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