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7 May 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com] 
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  While I agree there is plenty of room for preferences,
I 
 don't see why one
 would want everything isolated from everything else on the 
 LAN, when the
 existence of the LAN is warranted by the need for shared 
 access.  ON top of 
If you're talking about his remote X session in a separate 
window, I think he's emulating a not-so-good "feature" of
windows, there, actually.  Have you used Citrix, for instance,
or "microsoft terminal server?"

I like the normal X11 way of handling local and remote 
applications identically.

...
  that, typing half a screenful of text just to make
some file 
 on some other
 machine accessible seems a mite burdensome.  Even under DOS 
 it only takes a
 single half-line of text. 
Heh -- Yep.  I think he gave you a bad example.  You know about
NFS (or AFS, or whatever), right?  One can configure these once,
in the one line you speak of, and have another system's files
available thereafter as if they were your own.

SSH (previously RSH would have done...) will allow you to use
remote CPU resources if you like, too, and in the same single 
line.

...
  Some people just like *NIX because it enables them to
stroke 
 their own need
 for pseudo-sophistry. 
As with any platform.  I can't argue that.

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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