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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.171.20.9!news.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!uhclem From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: The Big Blue Box Message-ID: <E7zMs5.H15@nemesis.lonestar.org> 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> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 01:57:40 GMT Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38241 alt.os.linux:19633 comp.os.linux.misc:167516 Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: : What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? I've got a good one. Run NT4 with Microsofts News Server software. Try to receive articles and administer the newsgroup comp.unix.aux Go on, try it. You will find that every time you ask about directory "aux" the system will come back and say "\\ not found". Same probably goes for any group names that include the fields com, prn, lpt, sys, nul, aux and all of those other "DOS-ish" magic words. CP/M and its restrictions are apparently alive and well in NT. This "feature" makes it real hard to remove bad articles, do backups, expect anything that walks the tree to finish, etc. :-) To be fair, FileManager seems to deal with these directories OK, but who uses FileManager to do anything? Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Federal Trade Commission or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | requires products to stop | using "new" in their labeling or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem | after six months. Hello NT?" (c) 1997, ask before reprinting.