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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst 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: 9 May 1996 17:23:02 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik Lines: 43 Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mt9lm$32f@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4msovu$aep@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22581 comp.unix.bsd.misc:958 In article <4msovu$aep@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote: > >> Unix magazines are full of "64 bit unix" advertisements now. Why did >> it take so long? Because, unix was never written as an architecture >> independant system. > >The fathers of Unix tought us otherwise. But their grandmothers didn't believe them. > >Of course, programmers are men, they make errors and often tend to >laziness. (``All the world's a Vax.'') That's what makes porting >Unix kernels real work. Anyway, Unix is the only operating system >where you can watch the porting process. You don't see the porting >troubles Clos^H^H^H^HOpenVMS or Winbloze NT has undergone, since their >porting efforts happen behind closed doors. Evidently you have no real experiences with OpenVMS. Please, send your babbling to comp.os.vms. > >You can argue how you want, but you can't deny that Unices are running >on the widest variety of hardware, from all currently existing >operating systems. This is true, but was not the point. > >-- >J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer >joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j Henry -- juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.1] (Internet) omni:.de.uni-bonn.physik.saph1::juengst (DECnet/OSI, phase V) saph1::juengst [26.358] (DECnet, phase IV) Any opinions in this mail are my own.