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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: VMS vs "Unix"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.144123.2372@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: Research Computer Facility, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
- References: <BzGn32.37C@dscomsa.desy.de> <1992Dec23.195640.17777@crd.ge.com> <23DEC199215322500@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:41:23 GMT
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- In article <23DEC199215322500@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (When I boot to device appear to me these a messages it is) writes:
- :In article <1992Dec23.195640.17777@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes...
- :> joesvax::a$physical_disk$name_here_like_dra0:[dir.dir.dir]filename
- :>
- :>may work from anywhere on the net, but you need to know the node name,
- :>physical device name, and lots of syntax with variable numbers of
- :>colons, and [names] as well.
- :
- :It's very easy for the system manager can set up logical names to make
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- Would all of you carrying on this ridiculous holy war please take it
- elsewhere? It has nothing to do with computer architecture.
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- Bob Silverman
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