From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 20: 0: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96E237BAD1 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21846; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:29:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200003020344.VAA14879@ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:29:01 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: kc5vdj@swbell.net Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com, mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, (Alfred Perlstein) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Mar-00 Jim Bryant wrote: > this microsoft thing sounds like more trouble than it's worth. chalk > one up to marketing hype over fuctionality. sometimes it's easier to > make a direct copy of a tree or something than to use CVS or RCS, and > thus you would have untouched dupes out there depending on how far you > are along with whatever you are doing.with the mickeysoft method, you > would be changing the originals. I think you're assuming they're too stupid. I would say it would do COW. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message