From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 26 18:31:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA11115 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA11109 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA29796; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:30:33 -0700 (PDT) To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no subject (file transmission) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:11:01 EDT." <199606270111.VAA27626@shell.monmouth.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:30:33 -0700 Message-ID: <29794.835839033@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm a fan of OS/x and Pyramid dual universe stuff (which I will add to > Freebsd -- think universe bsd and universe gnu/linux) and EVEN I think ONE Yuck! That was a total kludge, and Apollo's variant symlinks a far more powerful/flexible approach (plus you don't have an extra "universe" command, you just set environment variables - principle of least surprise). Please don't perpetuate that system! :-( > 2. Declare the BSD method (the REAL original crontab) the winner. I think this is probably our best bet. Jordan