From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 22:57:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14372 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 22:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-hub.interpath.net (mail-hub.interpath.net [199.72.1.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA14367 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 22:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.interpath.net (raleigh-049.interpath.net [207.59.1.49]) by mail-hub.interpath.net (8.6.12/8.6.14) with SMTP id BAA02566; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 01:56:07 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960827055700.00a3d640@interpath.com> X-Sender: kpneal@interpath.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 01:57:00 -0400 To: Ken Hornstein From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Cc: Karl Denninger , hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:19 PM 8/26/96 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: >>> > Other than the fact that its not freely available? >>> >>> Hrm, I thought it was (or used to be free). :( >>> -- >>> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) >>> Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. >>> "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >> >>My understanding is that the server-side code is not (and never has been). > >The client isn't free either (but you generally don't pay extra for the >clients; you only pay for the server). > >I think AFS is a good solution, but you certainly have to pay a lot of money >for it, which is a real shame. Just wait till Reece (a friend of mine) rewrites it and GPL's it. He has a client working that can pull files out of AFSspace, providing that you know the filename and a couple of other things. He has pieces of the server working (better, I might add, than the Transarc code). He's amazing. Now if I can get him to do a BSD-style release as well..... -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com