I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
I know the SCO topic's been done to death, and all, but I was thinking about
the Microsoft purchase of a Unix license (apparently) for their MS SFU
(Windows Services For Unix) which contrary to the plain meaning of the name,
is essentially a Unix (apparently OpenBSD, according to rumour) box on top of
the Windows kernel and Win32 API.
The question is, wouldn't that put Microsoft and the SCO Group in breach of
the settlement between AT&T and Berkeley? If Win SFU _is_ OpenBSD, and
Microsoft have bought a license to run it from the SCO Group of all people,
isn't that in effect picking a fight with Theo de Raadt?
This isn't definite, of course - some details I'm not sure of. But I think if
this is so, we have some very interesting few years to look forward to.
--
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish
* * *
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> I downloaded the two Quasijarus distros,
Not sure which two do you mean, but keep in mind that the current release is
4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c, and that Warren's archive is no longer the main
distribution site for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus and is not up to date. The main
distribution site for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus is ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG.
> I was under the impression that gzip (both standalone and included in tar)
> knew how to handle compress files. Apparently not.
Use real compress, get it from
ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/components/compress.tar
I'm using compress -s mode, which produces the same strong compression ratio as
gzip (stronger than original compress), but without the politically unacceptable
letter 'g'.
MS
This is a sort of lame message but I'm having a sort of lame day, dealing
with some lame people who created some lame problems and I'm sick of lame.
OK, enough with the whining already. The good part is that I got a
message from this list. I am on a zillion mailing listings, I've been
around since the arpa net had 11 IMPs, and long enough before that that I
wacked pathalias. I witnessed first hand the first posting of
+-------------------+
\ WARNING: Morons /
\ next hundred /
\ postings /
\ !!!! /
\ /
\ /
\/
back in the days where netnews was how we communicated and virtually everyone
on news had a PhD or a Masters or was headed there (those were the days, eh?).
I love getting mail from this list, it brightens up my day. After a day of
nothing but cleaning up other people's messes, people who work for me and
should know better, I was in a foul mood. Really foul. And then some mail
from this list showed up and it just changed my whole day. Not because the
mail was that uplifting but because it is a connection to my past, back
when I used to argue with Guy Harris and thought I was right, back when
all I wanted was to work at Sun.
I really like this list, it's bright spot, but I wished you people were
a little more vocal. Maybe it's just me but I wonder if I'm really the
only one who revels in the past a bit... Maybe I need to get out more :)
--
---
Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.comhttp://www.bitkeeper.com
I downloaded the two Quasijarus distros, and tried " tar zxvf *.tar.Z ", and
nothing happened.
I was under the impression that gzip (both standalone and included in tar)
knew how to handle compress files. Apparently not.
My system's Mandrake 9.2, tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25. Is there some incantation
I'm not doing? Any ideas?
Thanks.
--
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish
* * *
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Subject says it. I've got an old (well, 10+ years old) copy of Unixware
(pre-old-SCO; I think it's release 2.01 or 2.03) in a boxed set with
manuals, CDROMs, patch diskettes, etc. Is this of any use to TUHS or
someone else as a donation or is it "too recent"?
cheers, /David/
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