Xref: utzoo alt.security:1578 alt.bbs:2978 comp.unix.sysv386:521 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!rayssd!sud509!heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.bbs,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Protecting against downloads Message-ID: <2479@sud509.ed.ray.com> Date: 19 Sep 90 16:04:44 GMT References: <2441@sud509.ed.ray.com> <1990Sep17.235708.16065@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: heiser@sud509.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin @ Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA) Organization: Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA Lines: 19 >What about all those neat (multiuser) games available for Unix that >won't run under dos? Cf Empire, conquer, mazewar, etc? Or have >these been translated to run under Desqview or some other similar >multi-tasker? > >(Not to mention wumpus and fortune! :-) ) Well, those are probably good reasons to run unix and allow shell access too! (I was arguing FOR shell access, not against it). I haven't tried any of those games (or any unix games for that matter, other than what came with SunOS and we deleted). None came with my Esix system. -- Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home(1): bill%unixland.uucp@world.std.com -or- uunet!world!unixland!bill Public Access Unix Coming Soon! Home(2): Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (BBS: 1-508-655-3848) Other: heiser@world.std.com (Pub. Access Unix)