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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 18:29:33 GMT
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In article <1993Mar14.070820.17710@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
> NFS and symbolic links especially don't mix:

NFS is brain dead. Given my druthers, I'd dump NFS. It's fundamentally broke
in so many ways it's not funny.

OK, OK, NFS is sure better than the client-server stuff you get on DOS
platforms, but it's long past time to replace *it*, and the low-level
interfaces that support it, with something more UNIX-like.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
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