In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/08/2006
at 09:15 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>All operating systems are fundamentally alike.
All operating systems are fundamentally different!
>All PC and *nix files are just a stream of
>bytes; that's not true for z/OS.
It's not true for PC files either; they include metadata, e.g.,
extended attributes in OS/2, permission masks in *ix.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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