APPLEVISION Monitor,, No shell = No power

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue May 7 11:01:07 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]

> While I agree there is plenty of room for preferences, I
> don't see why one
> would want everything isolated from everything else on the
> LAN, when the
> existence of the LAN is warranted by the need for shared
> access. ON top of

If you're talking about his remote X session in a separate
window, I think he's emulating a not-so-good "feature" of
windows, there, actually. Have you used Citrix, for instance,
or "microsoft terminal server?"

I like the normal X11 way of handling local and remote
applications identically.

> that, typing half a screenful of text just to make some file
> on some other
> machine accessible seems a mite burdensome. Even under DOS
> it only takes a
> single half-line of text.

Heh -- Yep. I think he gave you a bad example. You know about
NFS (or AFS, or whatever), right? One can configure these once,
in the one line you speak of, and have another system's files
available thereafter as if they were your own.

SSH (previously RSH would have done...) will allow you to use
remote CPU resources if you like, too, and in the same single
line.

> Some people just like *NIX because it enables them to stroke
> their own need
> for pseudo-sophistry.

As with any platform. I can't argue that.

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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