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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1238 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5955 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD, NetBSD coexist and share filesystem! References: <CExLov.3At@latcs1.lat.oz.au> Message-ID: <CEy3zt.1Lp@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 15:50:17 GMT Lines: 14 In article <CExLov.3At@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: >Hopefully, the X stuff, GNU s/w, share s/w, >should be able to be shared between the two, Unfortunately a number of common utilities (bash, emacs, ls) can't be properly shared because of the changed dbm format. Anything that converts a uid to a username is likely to lose. -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough