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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!news.thenet.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.149.24.18!excalibur.flash.net!euclid.flash.net!not-for-mail From: barnhart@euclid.flash.net (Matthew Jason Euclid Barnhart) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 27 Mar 1997 11:31:19 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5hdlq7$mjv$1@excalibur.flash.net> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.flash.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19453 comp.os.linux.misc:166566 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37813 Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: : >=Many servers (large ones too) don't support compressing on the fly. : >=And I'm not sure if war ftp 1.55 can tar on the fly. : > : >So the answer is NO, I guess... Poor choice of ftp-server, then, IMHO... : : Actually no. It is almost the *only* server used for warez. <snip> : Sort of. My computer has become slower because software has become : less efficient and bigger therefore much more taxing on my system. : : > Those willing to give up functionality for ease of use : > loose both and deserve neither. : : What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? I think your statement about war ftp being "almost the *only* server used for warez" puts you in your place. Those who trade warez really shouldn't be using UNIX/Linux, because they are generally too immature to deal with the complexities and functionality of these operating systems, because they would rather spend their nights alone on IRC, trading copies of whatever the hot PC game is this week, than actually learn something. matt. -- Matthew Barnhart - Systems Administrator - Flashnet Communications Fort Worth, Texas - barnhart@flash.net - (817) 332-8878 Will this never-ending series of PLEASURABLE EVENTS never cease?