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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 07:57:12 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 24 Message-ID: <334257A8.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <E7zMs5.H15@nemesis.lonestar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38306 alt.os.linux:19673 comp.os.linux.misc:167645 Frank Durda IV wrote: > > Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: > : What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? > > I've got a good one. Run NT4 with Microsofts News Server software. > Try to receive articles and administer the newsgroup > comp.unix.aux > Go on, try it. You will find that every time you ask about > directory "aux" the system will come back and say "\\ not found". > > Same probably goes for any group names that include the fields > com, prn, lpt, sys, nul, aux > and all of those other "DOS-ish" magic words. CP/M and its > restrictions are apparently alive and well in NT. > I haven't tried, but there is a register entry for each of the bogus DOS names. I wonder if the problem will go away if you remove those??? Of course, if that fixes the problem, then that shows an example of the complexity of using NT for serious work. Then, I wonder how many apps will break then? John