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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!merce
- From: merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Organization: Reptilian Research, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:10:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.091033.2650@xenitec.on.ca>
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- In article scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:
- >In article sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- >> I just kind of hate these root directories with 100 different directories
- >>within them. Seems rather unorganized...
- >
- >It is. So what. If the user of that machine likes it, then let them
- >suffer through it!
-
- ah, but this brings us back to what i think is the real issue in the DOS/Unix
- debate.
-
- it is not (in the unix perspective) "the user", it is "the userS".
-
- the whole concept of multiple people using the same disk at the same time
- totally confuses users of DOS. i see it all the time on DOS LAN's and
- with DOS LAN software. some of these developers don't have a clue.
-
- what idiot thought that wordperfect should default to storing the user's
- files in the same directory as the application programs?
-
- i also think that being able to swap disk space into the directory structure is
- a much more cool way of dealing with drives than the C:/D:/E:/... method
- of DOS.
-
- the problem here is not an issue of forcing people to live in specific area's
- of the directory list, but one of uniformity from a maintenance perspective.
-
- all of the issues which the unix admins here take for granted, raised many
- flags when we dropped a DOS LAN into the IBM mini/DP area. they said
- where should people put their files? who controls what?
-
- i let them lay it out themselves (actually they refused my help because i was
- "one of those unix guys".
-
- several days later, i critiqued their layout, and laid in a unix-style
- hierarchy.
-
- geez, they delayed setting up email for their 100 AS/400 users until they had
- full-time admin for the email system.
-
- either the concept/complexity was overblown by the salesperson, or the software
- is seriously fucked. (having seen portions of the software, i side with the
- latter)
-
-
- >> Ok, so I kind of prefer structured directory trees.
- >
- >Me too. It's funny how my pee cee at home has a directory structure
- >similar to my Unix machine here in the office.
-
- oops, ok, so don't take the above verbiage personally.
-
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