From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again Date: 27 Oct 1992 18:30:43 GMT
system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) writes:
> > the correct postings? Heck, you could do it in *perl*. You could
> >do it in *sh*.
>
> Umm excuse your ignorance but Fidonet runs (mostly) on DOS machines and
> I doubt that it would be that easy to do in Perl under dos impossible
> with sh. Dos also does not support symbolic links and therefore requires
> that each message be separate. I also agree that that is Fidonet's
> problem not the net's and has NO bearing on whether to seperate the
> groups. We need not let fidonet's shortcomings affect the way the net
> is run.
>
I'd like to take exception to that.
Bear in mind that Linux is an OS that (hopefully) we want to propagate
all over. To that end, the sub-nets which gate the information into a
whole realm of potential users should be anything BUT ignored.
A few years ago, the net didn't have the spread it does today. Through
Fido<->Usenet Gateways, sites runing Waffle and UUPC, the network is
vastly larger and further reaching. I suspect that it won't be long
before the terminal accounts on corporate and institutional sites will
be the minority. Dunno, it may have already happened.
It is PRECISELY that DOS doesn't do symbolic links, allow the use of
'real' news and mail systems, or any of the other 'trick' things that
*nix sites take for granted that we had better consider the 'little
guys.'
$0.02
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Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA