From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 16:37:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6280737B761 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a045.otenet.gr [212.205.215.45]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3MNYClv014088; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:34:12 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3MNYB8i002523; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:34:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3MNY9tD002518; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:34:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:34:09 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Filipak Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mark asks: Can anyone send me mcopy? Message-ID: <20020422233409.GA2316@hades.hell.gr> References: <3CC19E08.8CA859B0@earthlink.net> <20020422075640.GU27975@roman.mobil.cz> <3CC3CC10.2F50EB0D@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CC3CC10.2F50EB0D@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-04-22 04:38, Mark Filipak wrote: > I **can't** believe this. Is this for real? > > I ask someone, anyone, to simply send me mcopy. No one sends me mcopy. > Instead many people preach at me. > > What is wrong with this picture? There are many things wrong with a posting that says "send me mcopy". a) What operating system are you using? b) Which version of that operating system? c) Do you realize that even if you get an "mcopy" binary, compiled statically, so that it requires no other libraries to run, it still depends on the architecture/kernel it was compiled on? d) Even if you get a statically compiled mcopy binary, and you save it to a floppy disk, how will you copy it to the disk of the system it's going to be used on? This is a tricky question, because if you answer "oh, but I'll certainly use the network" then it is obvious that you can use the network for transferring your data and using floppies or mcopy is vain, useless and pointless :) Now, please do calm down and ask the real question. What are you *really* trying to do? Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message