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system: You are Warren Hrach, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Million about "Re: RedHat OS".

They wrote:
> what I am saying is that the program never even installed itself
>It just gave up. For some reason I cannot use Autoboot from the CdRom
> It won't do what it did before (setup the install program).
> I DID partition my HD using FIPS and it DID work. Fdisk will not
'C:\>D:
D:\> cd \images
> I can't do another install, it won't let me and I don't know why.
> What's mc? No anachronyms please.

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assistant: ompletely.
anymore.
If you can read the CDRom from dos then you can make a floppy boot disk for
Linux.
delete the > new partition for me and I can't find the option to do it with
FIPS so I can >try to start over. I haven't tried  to set-up a dual boot
thing yet. My DOS is >the only thing that works, even though I downsized the
partition. Now, most of > my HD is unavailable.
I am relating what my RedHat V4.2 disk info says;
'Copy from the CD Rom \DOSUTILS dir 'rawrite.exe' to C:\DOS or WINDOWS dir.
o
a blank formatted dos floppy.'  then;
 D:\images> rawrite
 Enter disk image source file name:boot.img
 Enter target diskette drive a:
 Please insert a formatted disk into drive A: and press -Enter-:'
When done label the disk 'RedHat boot disk'. Reinsert disk and reboot.
Linux then should boot from the diskette and you can restart your install
process and you can get linux fdisk to reformat your partion for Linux.
Because your Linux partition is full. Start with a minimum install, you can
update to more later when you know the space reqirements.
MC is midnight commander and a handy util like norton disk thingy.
I hope this gets you back on track. Warren
                 +---------------------------------------------+
                 |     Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107       |
                 |     warren@ocnbeach.maximumaccess.com       |
                 |     Linux BBBS and UUCP on an AMD K5        |
                 |        Fido BBS at (619) 224-4878           |
                 +---------------------------------------------+
system: You are Pablo Saratxaga, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Kathy Trottier about "Re: Mounting a "FAT32" partition".

They wrote:
Kt> question #1 what is the command to Mount Fat32 ?...

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assistant: From: Pablo Saratxaga <srtxg@chanae.alphanet.ch>
Kaixo!
on Sun, 22 Mar 98 12:38:35 +0100,
 Kathy trottier <Kathy.trottier@f335.n163.z1.fidonet.org> said:
Exactly the same as for fat16 or fat12.
You only need to patch the kernel so it supports it (basically it
adds some cases for "32" where before it only used "12" and "16", eg:
        if ((unsigned) (nr-2) >= MSDOS_SB(sb)->clusters)
                return 0;
-       if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 16) {
+       if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 32) {
+               first = last = nr*4;
+       } else if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->fat_bits == 16) {
                first = last = nr*2;
        } else {
                first = nr*3/2;
but from the user level there isn't any change at all; you continue to
use mount -t vfat .... as for fat16 or fat12.
--
Saludos,
Pablo Saratxaga           PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
visite http://www.linux.org.uy/
system: You are Pablo Saratxaga, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Burton about "Re: UNIX bbs software".

They wrote:
jb> 3. BBBS doesn't do FTS-0001 sessions via TCP/IP.
jb> BBBS needs to address the smtp issue; and while it's at it, needs to
jb> some way to map mail-names (jburton) to real-names (john burton).

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assistant: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980324052441.9160B-100000@mail.sandbox.telepath.com>
From: Pablo Saratxaga <srtxg@chanae.alphanet.ch>
Kaixo!
on Tue, 24 Mar 98 05:29:32 +0100,
 john burton <john.burton@f34.n147.z1.fidonet.org> said:
Totally irrelevant; nobody does that; it will be absurd, and a lot of
IP-mailers simply don't support it.
The interesting thins to have are: binkp, IFC (EMSI) and telnet-vmodem
MSI).
ind
That is why I don't like the DOSish BBS packages; because they reinvent the
wheel on the opposite way. On a typical unix system it is the real-names
(john burton) that are resolved to login names (jburton); not the other
way around.
Whith sendmail just put define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`True') in the *.mc file
to have mail to john.burton@... john_burton@... and even "john burton"@...
to be delivered to jburton.
(as long as /etc/password lists the real name off course)
--
Saludos,
Pablo Saratxaga           PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
visite http://www.linux.org.uy/
system: You are Joe Lerch, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bryan Schwartz about "multiple OS".

They wrote:
BS> I'm trying to set up my hard drive to take 3 OS, Red Hat linux, OS/2
BS> v4, and PC DOS 6.0. I have the general idea of what has to be done,
BS> and i have read the chapters in Running Linux about partitioning
BS> etc, but it dosn't say:

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assistant: Bryan Schwartz wrote in a message to All:
I sent you a private netmail with the mini how to
for setting up Linux, OS/2, dos and Windows on the
same drive. It may be helpful to you.
I installed RedHat Linux about two weeks ago on my
system that had 3 primary partitions, OS/2 bootmanager,
Warp 4, and OS/2. The system had one extended partition
divided into 2 logical partitions with Partition Magic.
I used Partition Magic to shrink my last partition
(formatted with HPFS) and created an unformatted
partition for Linux. Afterwards, using the Fdisk
that came with Linux I created a small swap partition
and the regular EXT2 partition within the unformatted
partition that PQMagic created.
The boot manager defaults to OS/2 and after booting
with the Linux disk, the OS/2 was visible to Linux but
not the NT.
All seems to work well, the boot manager has no
problems, and I cna boot to any system. Stlll can't
use RD Linux, have a lot more to learn first.
One other thing, better know about each partition,
where is starts and stops ( cly number)
as the Linux Fdisk will list all of them
According to the RedHat manual page 28:
If Red Hat Linus/Intel will coexist on your machine
with OS/2,you must create your disk partitions with
the OS/2 partitioning software-otherwise, OS/2
may not recognize the disk partitions.
During the installations, do not create any
new partitions, but do set up the proper partition
types fro your Linux partition usinf the Linux FDISK
good luck
joe
PS: the other day I installed the EXT2 driver for
OS/2 and it works pretty good, can read and write
to my Linux drives from OS/2 ( I can also read& write
to the OS/2 drives from Linux) - the only problem is
I didn't plan ahead when I orginally installed
and setup Warp so now if I use the driver my cdrom
assignment letter is wrong.
system: You are Soeren Finne, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Alle about "FEddi".

They wrote:
-=> Yours sincerely, Soeren Finne <=-

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assistant: Hi All, hope you are having a nice day
I have some problems getting FEddi to compile under RedHat 5.0.. under SuSE
5.1 it worked just fine.. but under RH50 I get this error :
/*
root@titan FEddi-0.9pl7]# make
gcc -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -m486    -c proc.c -o proc.o
proc.c: In function `LOCKBase':
proc.c:1313: `errno' undeclared (first use this function)
proc.c:1313: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
proc.c:1313: for each function it appears in.)
proc.c:1313: `ESRCH' undeclared (first use this function)
make: *** [proc.o] Error 1
*/
Anyone ? :)
system: You are Daniel Parreira, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Maurice Kinal about "Re: US Robotics Modem".

They wrote:
MK> Does anybody here know how the Sam-heck to get a 33.6 pcmcia modem to
MK> in

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assistant: Maurice Kinal@1:351/255.1 wrote:
ork
Are you sure it isn't a Winmodem?
Ciao...
        Daniel Rodrigues Parreira (parreira@compuserve.com)
system: You are Bill Hliwa, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "FP98 Extensions and COL-S".

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assistant: Has anyone tried installing the FrontPage 98 extensions under Caldera's
COL-Standard package (Netscape FastTrack Server)?
Does it work?  Any caveats in installation or usage?  (The extensions package
from rtr only list RedHat's 3.0.3 kernel.)
system: You are Jason Snyder, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Khile Klock about "SQL Server for Linux".

They wrote:
-> I saw this in here before, but I was moving, so didn't get a chance
-> to go grab it...
-> I'm looking for an SQL Server for Linux...
-> Can anybody repost that URL?

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assistant: Hi Khile,
I don't have a URL to give you, but I can tell you that RedHat 5.0 comes
packaged with an SQL server.
system: You are John Burton, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: UNIX bbs software".

They wrote:
>  jb> 3. BBBS doesn't do FTS-0001 sessions via TCP/IP.
>
> Totally irrelevant; nobody does that; it will be absurd, and a lot of
> IP-mailers simply don't support it.  The interesting thins to have are:
> binkp, IFC (EMSI) and telnet-vmodem (EMSI).
>  jb> BBBS needs to address the smtp issue; and while it's at it, needs
>  jb> to find some way to map mail-names (jburton) to real-names (john
>  jb> burton).
>
> That is why I don't like the DOSish BBS packages; because they reinvent
> the wheel on the opposite way. On a typical unix system it is the
> real-names (john burton) that are resolved to login names (jburton); not
> the other way around.
> Whith sendmail just put define(`confMATCH_GECOS',`True') in the *.mc
> file to have mail to john.burton@... john_burton@... and even "john
> burton"@...  to be delivered to jburton.  (as long as /etc/password
> lists the real name off course)

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assistant: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980328211729.10394A-100000@mail.sandbox.telepath.com>
<Pine.LNX.3.95.980324052441.9160B-100000@mail.sandbox.telepath.com>
<6fc0oi$qv3@chanae.alphanet.ch>
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
Not *quite* totally irrelevant, Pablo..  Some mailers do not do an EMSI
session and BBBS doesn't do an FTS-006 session.  Now if there were some
way to make BBBS use a file mailer like ifico <gryn>....
I gotta agree here.  My point was however that BBBSs smtp deamon didn't
work well with the ever-popular sendmail.
With all the help I've gotten in the ifmail list I've learned more about
the secrets of sendmail than I ever learned working with it in a (what
turned out to be) simple environment; and for that I thank you, Pablo...
What I'd like to see is some way to "menu" a linux box to make it easier
on dial-in customers.  I don't want to fool with 'games' and such, but I'd
like to find some way to allow news logins for example.  Then a box with
pine would really be all that's needed....
At any rate...
Thanks!
==========================================================================
sandbox.telepath.com			 	    	   john burton
(405)737-9540				The SANDBOX ** MultiLine linux
1:147/34@fidonet			        MidWest City, Oklahoma
==========================================================================
                              --==jb==--
system: You are John Burton, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Samuli Suonpaa about "UNIX BBS SOFTWARE".

They wrote:
> > Is it possible to configure a BBBS so it acts more like a
> > dos-based board?
>
> Yes it is. Although I can't understand why.
> Very. You can redraw every menu if you like, menus-directory
> contains all the menus both as plain ascii and with ansi-codes. You
> can change every comment bbbs gives you (bbbstext contains lines of
> output text so you can mangle with it as you like). Hell, you can
> even reprogram every command with a bit c-like language!
>
> This is enough, isn't it?
> --- BBBS/LiI v3.42 ToMmIk-4v

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assistant: I haven't seen this one come thru on my end, but thought I'd drop this
comment in here.  BBBS is purely daunting to the on-line customer with all
the bells and wistles on one menu.
If there were some way of documenting HOW to write simpler to manage menus in
the documentation......
What about the smtp limitations???
Still haven't seen any way to get BBBS to talk to sendmail...
Then again... I was looking at BBBS/L v3.3.........
                                --==jb==--
system: You are Mike Glasspool, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jim Balcom about "Unix power?".

They wrote:
JB> I can't keep Win95 up for more than 2 days!
KL> Unix can run for months at a time unattended...

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assistant: You, 'Jim...' have been graced with a reply from the humble Mike!
I run a BBS under Win95, and it stayed up for 4 months without a reboot. No
problems whatsoever, you just have to configure it right.
Right now, trying to figure Linux out, I'm having lots of trouble, with
Floppies, ZipDrives, CDROMs, Sound, etc.
system: You are Maurice Kinal, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Parreira about "Re: US Robotics Modem".

They wrote:
MK>> Does anybody here know how the Sam-heck to get a 33.6 pcmcia modem to
MK>> work
MK>> in
DP> Are you sure it isn't a Winmodem?

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assistant: 20 Mar 98 17:15, Daniel Parreira wrote to Maurice Kinal:
It isn't listed as such.  Here are the specs according to the card itself
(sorry I didn't get any documentation with it):
PC CARD MODEM
With XJACK Connector
x2 Upgradeable
33.6kps Data/14.4kps Fax
Part #: 105-57061-01
It's built for Hatachi Mobilized Computing by US Robotics Technology.
And that is pretty much all I know for sure other than it works with the
standard PCMCIA driver provided by an unmentionable OS on com 2.  :)
system: You are Willie Mckemie, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Robert Goodkin about "Dosemu".

They wrote:
RG> I've having a little problem running Terminate in Linux dosemu.
RG> I've tried using both the development and stable versions and
RG> neither works consistantly.  The problem is when I start up
RG> terminate it says "Where is terminat.key!??!" and won't start.
RG> I've redirected all my mounted dos drives to exactly the same path
RG> they are in dos.  Apparently it can't find files in the working
RG> directory.  If anybody knows any fix for this lemme know.   Thanks

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assistant: 29-Mar-1998 07:15
Hi Robert, Greetings!
I had some trouble getting Ter5 going, unfortunately, I don't recall
exactly what the problem was.  I think it may have been with lredir.  I
suggest trying a setup without lredir.  I run Ter4 on one drive letter
for straight DOS and another for dosemu.  The only conflict that I have
is when I create mail under one and try to send it under the other.  IE
when I create mail under dosemu, it cannont be found under DOS because
of the drive letter change.  I do have different startup menus for DOS
and dosemu.
BTW, I'm still running Ter4 just because I haven't gone to the trouble
of changing; In test, I got Ter5 to work under dosemu.
BBTW, I see that I should mention that I'm running dosemu 0.66.7.
Futher consideration brings to mind that there is a little explanation
file on this subject.  The Terminate BBS has it.  Or, if you have an
email address, I can find and attach it to you.
Willie
NetMail: 1:382/92.8
EMail: McKemie@infomail.com
system: You are Francois Thunus, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Joe Lerch about "multiple OS".

They wrote:
JL> I installed RedHat Linux about two weeks ago on my
JL> system that had 3 primary partitions, OS/2 bootmanager,
JL> Warp 4, and OS/2. The system had one extended partition
JL> PS: the other day I installed the EXT2 driver for
JL> OS/2 and it works pretty good, can read and write
JL> to my Linux drives from OS/2 ( I can also read& write
JL> to the OS/2 drives from Linux)
JL> - the only problem is I didn't plan ahead when I orginally installed
JL> and setup Warp so now if I use the driver my cdrom assignment letter
JL> is wrong.
>----- Begin -----
>-----  End  -----

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assistant: Hello !
28 Mar 98 08:49, Joe Lerch wrote to Bryan Schwartz:
care to explain the difference between Warp 4 and OS/2 ? :-)
hu ? I use the ext2fs package myself to access my ext2fs partition from OS/2.
No problem there. However, if I can _READ_ the hpfs partition from Linux,
there is no way I can _WRITE_ to it from linux, and sometimes it comes in
handy.
Care to explain how you did that ? Or does that mean that your OS/2 drives
are in fact FAT drives ?
I don't know exactly what you mean by wrong, but here is how I solved the
problem:
Dos:
to make sure the cd-rom always gets the same letter under Dos, you can use
the dumdrv.sys that comes with iHpfs, the hpfs driver for dos.
OS/2 Warp 3.0:
use the tricks provided in the Ext2FS driver package
OS/2 Warp 4.0: check out the boot sequence. there is a tab somewhere that
allows you to reserve certain letters in order to make sure that each drive
gets the same every time.
If everything else fails, just code your batches to "guess" what drive.
That's what I used to do before I found out about the above mentionned
drivers.
here is for example my CC.bat, which had to be used either under os/2 or
under dos. I coded it that way once and for all to allow any further change
to the config :-)
@ECHO OFF
if exist E:\Symantec\bin\sC.EXE  set CDROM=E:
if exist F:\Symantec\bin\sC.EXE  set CDROM=F:
if exist G:\Symantec\bin\sC.EXE  set CDROM=G:
if exist H:\Symantec\bin\sC.EXE  set CDROM=H:
if exist I:\Symantec\bin\sC.EXE  set CDROM=I:
if exist %cdrom%\Symantec\bin\SC.EXE goto CDok
echo.
echo CD with symantec C++ 6.2 not found. Try again.
echo.
goto end
:cdOk
[etc]
 Francois Thunus
 Miksi Internetissa: puhutaan englantia ?
 Oletko kuullut pienimma:sta: yhteisesta: nimitta:ja:sta: ?
 2:270/25.2@fidonet                           |  Views expressed here
 root@Club.TeleMatique.org                    |  are strictly my own.
 http://www.telematique.org/ft                |  (unless otherwise stated)
system: You are Marco Leune, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Red Hat 5.0 XLT (Alpha) kernel vs. Matro21:45:0503/28/98".

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assistant: Hello,
I'm trying to install Red Hat 5.0 for Alpha on an XL-266, but the XLT
distribution kernel crashes late in the boot process, just after the message
"turning on virtual addressing and jumping to the Linux kernel" (you'll find
this error on p. 246 of the RH 5.0 manual). I suspect my Matrox Millenium (2
MB), but I'm not sure.. The XLT kernel is primarily intended for the
XL-300/366, but it should support this one as well. RH 4.2 had a separate XL
kernel, but it has been dropped in 5.0... Before I get down to rebuilding the
kernel, I'd like to know whether this looks familiar to anyone, and if there
are any work-arounds (another videocard? I'd hate to waste a Millenium...
;-() Milo 1.5 works fine; it's the kernel that barks...
Cheers,                                 e-mail: mleune@icns.nl
Marco
system: You are Bj�Rn Andersen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Willie Mckemie about "Help for an idiot <g>".

They wrote:
JV>> CTRL-ALT-<the_plus-button_on_the_keypad> will cycle through
JV>> whatever screen modes you have setup- but replace that server
JV>> package..!
WM> I've been looking for this little piece of information for weeks!
WM> Will someone tell me where I SHOULD have been looking?  I wonder what
WM> other X control keys I'm not aware of.

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assistant: Hey Willie!
Heh, try getting the XF86-HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project. I think
that covers most of what you'll need in terms of shortcut descriptions and
such. It's available for download at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/something-I-don't-quite-remember-right-now :)
Regards,
Bj�rn Andersen
system: You are Robert Goodkin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Willie Mckemie about "Dosemu".

They wrote:
WM> Futher consideration brings to mind that there is a little
WM> explanation file on this subject.  The Terminate BBS has it.  Or,
WM> if you have an email address, I can find and attach it to you.
-=> Yours sincerely, Robert Goodkin <=-

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assistant: Hi Willie McKemie, hope you are having a nice day
29-Mar-98 07:15:00, Willie McKemie wrote to Robert Goodkin
          Subject: Dosemu
I would greatly appriciate it..
rgg@engr.arizona.edu
___ Terminate 5.00/Pro
 X TerMail/QWK X With Terminate YOU can beat the feeling!
system: You are Robert Goodkin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Marco Leune about "Red Hat 5.0 XLT (Alpha)".

They wrote:
ML> manual). I suspect my Matrox Millenium (2 MB), but I'm not sure..
-=> Yours sincerely, Robert Goodkin <=-

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assistant: Hi Marco Leune, hope you are having a nice day
28-Mar-98 21:45:00, Marco Leune wrote to All
          Subject: Red Hat 5.0 XLT (Alpha) k
Well I don't know anything about ALPHA machines or anything, but I would
suspect that it is not your video card.  Matrox is probably one of the best
supported cards in the Linux area.
___ Terminate 5.00/Pro
 X TerMail/QWK X When did you TERMINATE your old terminal program ?
system: You are Robert Goodkin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Linux message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "FreeBSD VS Linux".

They wrote:
-=> Yours sincerely, Robert Goodkin <=-

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assistant: Hi ALL , hope you are having a nice day
I don't want to start a big OS war or anything, and I am sure that this
topic has been beating into the ground but I have some questions.  I've
been using Linux (slackware) for about 6 months.  It is my first Unix style
operating system, and I quire like it.  I wouldn't say I am by any means an
expert with it now, but I am confortable..  I have been doing some reading
on FreeBSD and to me it seems like it is a little better than Linux, or
very similar.  I would appriciate all comments and input you people have on
the subject.
___ Terminate 5.00/Pro
 X TerMail/QWK X With Terminate YOU can beat the feeling!