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- From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <7JAN199312365350@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:36:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.090749.6873@uhura1.uucp>, bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net writes...
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- If /net/host is just an NFS mount point for "host", then I'm not impressed.
- We all know NFS. I don't expect that every remote system that gives me an
- account will also NFS export for me, nor am I sure I want to add any more NFS
- traffic to my existing network. If this isn't NFS, someone please explain
- a bit more, because none of my systems will recognize such syntax in any other
- way.
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- Bob Koehler | Any illusion to these opinions being other
- rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov | than just mine alone is just that.
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