Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names for disks (rz0, rz1, rz2, ... ). This was very nice. This one does not

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bruce A. Mah wrote: If memory serves me right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one does not resolve the controller problem either as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said. So, I guess dac0t0, dac0t1, ... dac3t4, will be good enough if we want to be short, but anything shorter

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:09:31PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: [...] Yes but with the navigator, you can't even mail a link or a page... With Netscape's mail and news sdk you can use your favorite mail and news clients transparently from navigator (like mailto:, news:, or mail page, etc.).

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:15:09PM +0200, Bjoern Fischer wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:09:31PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: [...] Yes but with the navigator, you can't even mail a link or a page... With Netscape's mail and news sdk you can use your favorite mail and news clients

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Bjoern Fischer: The sdk consists of some C headers, docs and a small example. You simply build a small shared library that is loaded by navigator. The shared library uses hooks in navigator and you may perform any action you like (start /usr/bin/mail, mutt, emacs, ...). Wow! I

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: As Oliver Fromme wrote ... I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track and twice the data rate (1 MBit/s).

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:15:53PM +0300, Narvi wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names for disks (rz0,

umount(8) or unmount(2) ?

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, Since about 5 weeks I'm working on sanity checks and bug fixes for umount(8), mount(8) and mount_xxx(8). Poul Henning told me to mail to cvs-committers too, cause many clued people read it. You'll find my patch and the readme for it on :

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-02 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Oliver Fromme wrote ... Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: As Oliver Fromme wrote ... I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track and

Cosmetic changes to whois(1)

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Abley
I've just made two very minor (cosmetic) modifications to whois(1): 1. Added -m option, which selects whois.ra.net as the whois server. This server publishes routing policy for a large number of network operators, and is currently run by Merit (see www.ra.net for more details). 2. Added -q

No Subject

1999-10-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bcc: Subject: Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Type 'man 3 fetch', scroll down to the BUGS section, and see the light. Next, scroll back up to the AUTHORS section and find out who to contact :) (fetch

Re: your mail

1999-10-02 Thread Barry Irwin
On Sun 1999-10-03 (07:22), Matthias Buelow wrote: Bcc: Subject: Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http