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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? ***
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 05:23:19 GMT

J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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...
: 
: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

and when the source code for OpenDOS is published...?