From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 10:01:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA26229 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:01:11 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA26209 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:01:07 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA02358; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:01:08 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506121701.KAA02358@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506121515.JAA11544@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> from "Alan F Lundin" at Jun 12, 95 09:15:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 664 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Jun 10, 10:10pm, "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... > > > > [ ... ] > > I have always hated using HUP to cause reloads of data files, I find it > > gross compared to the nice neat stuff that VMS does :-). > > I see the smiley, but have no idea what the "nice neat stuff > VMS does" is. Just what is it that VMS does? They are called mailboxes, and they look kinda like a named pipe, get a set of VMS programmers manuals (about 6 3" volumes) and look it up :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD