Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:15:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: cedric@wireless-networks.com (Cedric Berger), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <200102202015.MAA77474@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <3A92129E.7CD722F4@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Feb 19, 2001 11:45:50 pm"
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> Cedric Berger wrote:
> >
> > > Configuration data
> > > on VMS was mostly stored in the form of "logical names", which are sort
> > > of like persistent environment variables with different namespaces (per
> > > system, per group, and per user).
> >
> > Well, the windows registry also provide such kind of centralized,
> > persistent environment variables, with different namespaces
> > (per system, per user)?
> >
> > At least, let's say that Windows way of storing configuration looks
> > closer then VMS than UNIX.
>
> OK, except VMS didn't store them in some half-baked database file, and
> didn't regularly scramble all of it. ;^)
You never had to deal with a scrambled sysuaf.dat, rightlist.dat,
netproxy.dat or a million other ``registry like'' .dat files on VMS?
Your fortunate! (Yea, VMS was 10^6 times better about not doing this,
but it still did it, and one could usually easily recover by deleting
the highest version of the file (thank god for versions).)
> The logicals on VMS were stored only in memory, and were created during
> or after system boot by DSL procedures, the equivalent of shell scripts.
^^^ DCL
> This is actually much more like UNIX than the Windows Registry.
Take a look at ``DIR sys$system:*.dat'' some time and tell me that again...
LNM is only one part of the picture...
--
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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