Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Slashes in filenames? Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 21:22:19 GMT References: <15236@smoke.brl.mil> <123382@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Feb22.141910.17013@decuac.dec.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1991Feb22.141910.17013@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > Basically NFS is an de facto standard kludge. It's also a kludge > that lets a lot of people get what they want done fairly easily, and it's > hard to argue against that. Yeh, you have to point to better solutions that actually work. What a crock, to imagine that because something's a "standard" you have to put up with it. Intel's "OpenNET" software provides sufficiently transparent remote file access that people are surprised when their shared memory files don't work over the network. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"