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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!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:53:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5i1ccs$fo@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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> <334257A8.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38380 alt.os.linux:19735 comp.os.linux.misc:167856 "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 > -- 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. ;-)