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Subject: Re: telnet to a Win2k-pro machine
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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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