From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 26 13:30:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19221 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 13:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA19216 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 13:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id AAA01641; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:29:58 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:29:58 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , "Sergei S. Laskavy" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/chio: why in /bin ? In-Reply-To: <199707262025.QAA06505@whizzo.TransSys.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > chio is not clearly machine dependent. It talks to any SCSI media > changer device, just like mt works with any SCSI tape device. Your words are in conflict: you talk about "not machine dependent" and "SCSI device". Any phisical device which not exist for all machines (like memory f.e.) IS machine dependance. SCSI not exist for all machines. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/