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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? ***
Date: 11 Oct 1996 08:41:47 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) wrote:

> : Basically, the only DOS service that is moderately in use is the
> : filesystem.
> 
> The FAT file system stinks too.

I didn't claim the opposite. :)  Nevertheless, the filesystem is
probably the most used service of the entire DOS, apart from the .EXE
file loader...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)