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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: obscurity
Message-ID: <1843@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 16:43:44 EST
Article-I.D.: hammer.1843
Posted: Wed Mar  5 16:43:44 1986
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References: <2102@dutoit.UUCP> <464@polaris.UUCP>
Reply-To: tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy (Snoopy)
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In article <464@polaris.UUCP> herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) writes:

> the fragility of the filesystem implementation is not so great (having
> recently patched some filesystems where the free-list was being
> scribbled on by the hardware).

The hardware screws up and scribbles on the disk and you're complaining
about the software?  Perhaps you should be looking at replicated
hardware.

>the documentation is just horrible, especially for a new user.

Lots of people complain about this.  I must be strange.  I didn't
have any problem with the documentation when I learned Unix.

Snoopy
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