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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: vp/ix and merge
Message-ID: <272@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 16 Sep 90 08:51:34 GMT
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woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:
	...
>If you truely believe that there are things you cannot do with UNIX to
>do your day-to-day business, why are you trying to run UNIX?  If you

The answer, in my case, is: I want to keep my Fidonet connection.  I
have not found any software that will allow a Fidonet "point" to run
under Unix, except a DOS emulator (...and not quite THAT, either...
I'm having problems with sending outgoing stuff... but I'm working on
that).  I must share the modem and phone line - duplicating everything,
including the computer, the modem and the line, would cost a BUNDLE.
I need Unix for Usenet/UUCP (I *could* wing it under Dos, but it's a
pain) as well as for every other sort of computing task.  The DOS
emulator also allows, as a convenience, to keep running DOS apps which
remain around, although indeed in most cases it's just a convenience.

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