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- From: alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Preferences - UNIX setup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.213926.7386@pencom.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:39:26 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.050708.3985@nmsu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Psuedo User)
- Reply-To: alex@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Software
- Lines: 63
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- Joseph:
-
- Unix Expert shows/hides the Unix related file system, such as /tmp, /usr, /etc
- and so forth.
- + allows you to access the entire file system
- - is very confusing for beginners, since the sheer number of filesystems is
- overwhelming
-
- Public Sound Server -- allows/prohibits others from sending sounds over the
- network to your speaker
- + allows you to create "haunted house effect" (hey, where's the music coming
- from?)
- - I don't know of any
-
- Public Window Server -- allows/prohibits others from sending windows to your
- machine
- + allows remote processing (run an application on one machine and display it
- somewhere else)
- - a security hole, but I don't fully understand how
-
- + Large File System -- don't know anything about this one. Anyone care to
- comment?
-
-
- Best regards,
-
-
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- In article <1992Jul26.050708.3985@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good)
- writes:
- >
- > Could somebody please tell me what each of these do in Preferences?
- >
- > Expert Preferences:
- >
- > __ UNIX Expert __ Public Sound Server
- > __ Large File System __ Public Window Server
- >
- > What do each do, and what are the dangers/pro's/con's of using them???
- >
- > Thanks!!!
- >
- > -----
- >
- > Joseph Good
- > +-------------------+ - More than just a band....
- > | Green Dot Brigade | - It's a whole damn army of dots...
- > +-------------------+ - And we've declared war on the 7-Up dots...
- >
- > rscott@nmsu.edu (NeXT mail welcome!!)
- >
- > atlantis@acca.nmsu.edu (Just plain ol' Unix)
-