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- From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.090749.6873@uhura1.uucp>
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- Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
- References: <31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1801@ocpt.ccur.com> <5JAN199308410371@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:07:49 GMT
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- In article <5JAN199308410371@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
- >
- > Its's really nice to site on a VMS machine and
- > edit node::file
- > where "node" doesn't have an editor you like.
- > I've done this to TOPS-20, RSX, ULTRIX, and AIX (kinet's implementation of
- > DECnet).
-
- It's also really nice to sit (site?) on a UNIX machine and
- emacs /net/host/file
- where "host" doesn't have an editor you like, or to
- cd /net/host/directory
- if you want to work with the files on "host"s disk without having to
- specify the path name all of the time.
-
- I've done this to AIX, DG/UX, HP-UX, SunOS, and Ultrix, using AMD (the
- 4.4BSD automounter). Not quite as nice as having the semantics
- integrated into the networking protocols (it doesn't work on my MS-DOS
- or VMS machines, though they have TCP/IP), but nice nonetheless.
-
- (Anyone have an automounter for DOS or VMS?)
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