Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:8861 comp.unix.wizards:11294 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX file system Summary: One heaping helping of moral support, coming up... Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 88 11:58:01 GMT References: <411@marob.masa.com> <178@arnold.uucp> <3442@crash.cts.com> <13608@mimsy.uucp> <3453@crash.cts.com> Organization: First Zenarchist International Lines: 18 In article <3453@crash.cts.com>, jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan) writes: > I don't think this is a "war" at all. I think I've > learned a bit about the right way to think about Unix files, knowledge > which will no doubt come in handy some day, probably sooner than I think it > will (if past experience is any guide). Maybe some other folks have learned > something about VMS files too. Isn't this what the net is about? Yup. Me, I learned a lot about VMS from your postings. Not that I'd ever use it without you put a gun to my head, but I learned a lot. Thank you for your lucid descriptions of how RMS works. BTW, cultural differences are funny; I kept wanting to parse that acronym RMS as "Richard M. Stallman", an entity even more complex and obscure (but much less brain-damaged :-)) than VMS file I/O. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: ...!{uunet,att,rutgers}!snark!eric = eric@snark.UUCP Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718