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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!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news.coli.uni-sb.de!news.phil.uni-sb.de!not-for-mail From: D. Rock <rock@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:05:57 GMT Organization: Universität des Saarlandes Lines: 45 Message-ID: <5i8l5l$43e$1@pf1.phil.uni-sb.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com> <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com> <E84y08.JqI@nonexistent.com> <5i4d82$se3$1@wuff.mayn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: vodix.cs.uni-sb.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970222; i86pc SunOS 5.5.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19871 comp.os.linux.misc:168300 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38578 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Matthias Buelow <token@altair.franken.de> wrote: : In article <E84y08.JqI@nonexistent.com>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: : >Q-DOS->MS-DOS->W*nd*ws->NT. : >Where do you see a lack of continuity? : WindozeNT has more in common with VMS than with DOS. Yesterday I fired up a CMD.EXE under NT. I tried to edit a file with that famous EDIT: edit longfilename Shit: It was silently converted to longfile.nam. Congratulations. Not the file I wanted to edit. I remembered the silly renaming scheme and typed again edit longfi~1 Ahh. There it was. This was EDIT shipped with NT (not one found into a DOS 6.2 directory). Once I plugged in a ZIP drive. After the reboot all my drive letters were messed up. Even worse, NT didn't allow me to change to letter of the ZIP drive. So: Shutdown. Unplug the ZIP drive. 1st reboot. Change all drive letters if possible. 2nd reboot. Change remaining drive letters in the now free slot which was the boot drive. Shutdown. Replug the ZIP drive. 3rd reboot. Wow. This is indeed a very flexible and user friendly OS. (Or should I just reinstall every application that now finds its data not in D:\...., but in C:\...) I just wanted to replug my modem from COM1: to COM2:. This again took 2 reboots until I was able to dial out again. Regarding to its marketing target, NT is even bigger crap than Windows 95. And has just too much roots in DOS (see case 1 and 2). Daniel