>
> On 8/19/99 at 8:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Adams) wrote:
>
> > and tell you friend not to talk about things which he obviously has
> > very little knowlage of.
>
> *heh heh heh*
>
> This is exactly what I wanted to tell my network admin a few days ago
> when he said (and I paraphrase):
>
>
> ...when Windows 2000 comes out, it's going to make Unix obsolete as a
> web-serving platform because [Windows 2000] has drag & drop. All you'll
> have to do is drag your files into the appropriate folder. With Unix,
> you have to copy one file at a time into the right directories. It's
> actually easier to FTP your files to another Unix machine than to move
> them around on the same machine...
O yes that would be in 2001 i suppose, like win98 came out halfway thro'
98.~.
and crached in the demo ;-).
>
>
> So there you have it. Easy file transfer is _far_ more important than
> reliability and performance! (my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek
> here...)
>
> Even as a raw newbie, I know that with X I can drag and drop files to my
> heart's content, and that from the command line it's a fairly simple
> matter to copy/move the contents of one directory to another.
>
> Oh well, this is the same admin who, every time our server crashes, asks
> me "Do you have that Linux machine hooked up?"
>
> Sadly, in my situation, telling the admin that he knows not from whence
> he speaks would be a Bad Thing.
Just show him my replys to your messages, it seems he is "hard of hearing"
reading might help.
>
> *sigh*
>
> --
> Rik Osborne
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://members.xoom.com/phase42/
>
> "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the
>gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking."
>--Albert Einstein
>
>
--
Regards Richard.
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