On Jul 19, 12:08, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
> Well, NeXT did a few things against unix traditions, NI didn't
> probably work out well
:-)
> but objc, developing environment and the
> windowing system certainly did. One really has to try those to see
> how badly X11 sucks.
I've heard good things about the development environment. I'm not overly
impressed with the window manager, but I've seen much worse. And I can
think of a few shortcomings of X11 (colour [mis]management for one)
> If you end up with a corrupted NI db (badly corrupted) you can reset all
> the NI information by booting single-user and
>
> cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc
> cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo
I did almost exactly that after poking about last week. Nice to know it
was the right guess!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jul 19 2001 - 12:54:07 BST