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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2001 02:52:15 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: telnet to a Win2k-pro machine
Message-ID:  <04eb01c18054$217e7b70$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <20011208223542.U29324-100000@big> <04cb01c1804f$2673f5b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C12BCBB.80700@owt.com> <04e401c18050$314ea060$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C12BEEC.6010402@owt.com>

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Kent writes:

> Well, NT-3.5x+ has had a POSIX subsystem and you
> can run the POSIX commands from the telnet command
> line.

That's not NT administration, though.  If you want something to run POSIX
with telnet, why not just run UNIX?

> For an editor, I use vi even on W2K.

I use Notepad on Windows.  For FreeBSD, currently I use joe most of the
time.  vi has a steep learning curve for the simple editing I usually have
to do.

> You can also setup your W2K machine to accept
> lpr from a Unix system. I can't imagine adding
> samba to a fine Unix machine just to share a printer.

You could attach an A/B switch to the printer.


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