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From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
Date: 8 May 1996 12:40:35 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik
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In article <4mpo0f$57r@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote:
>
>> >(We don't chat about 15-year old implementations here, do we?)
>> 
>> And some people say that unix is a modern operation system. Fascinating.
>
>It actually is, since it's been able to cope with technical progress.
>
>Much unlike MessyDOS, which appeared after Unix, cloned some of the
>Unix features in a miserable way (the hierarchical file system, though
>they've botched the pathname separator, see also the mention of
>`ioctl's in DOS), but finally got stuck in its own misdesign.  It
>wasn't extensible enough.  (Certainly nobody is willing to work with a
>15-year old Unix today, except for fun, but it's a matter of fact that
>there has never been a major break in the development line, so you've
>always been able to compile 5 or 10 year old programs on a current
>Unix without too much hassles.  [With minor exceptions, of course.])

Nice to see that you compare unix with MSDOS. Please, more! :-)))

>
>-- 
>J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
>joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j

Henry

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