On 15-Oct-99, Mark Bond wrote:
>>>
>>>> As for
>>>> the netinfo, well if you aren't an advanced user you don't really need
>>> it.
>>
>> Having already had an intruder groping around in my computer, I DO need
>> it.
>
> How do you know this, if I may ask??
Because the groper bragged about it.
>
> I didn't say you don't need to know, quite obviously you feel you have
> a need to know, I was answering your original question of why it
> wasn't in the NC docs, what I actually said was you don't need it
> (refering to netinfo itself, not more information on netinfo) unless
> you were an advanced user.
You still haven't given a tiny hint of why an advanced user has greater
needs than us plebs, as Mark puts it.
>
> As for where to get the info, I can't give specifics I'm afraid, but
> try searching yahoo for details, go to berkeley (probably not the
> right spelling I'm afraid) web site and searching there, because I
> believe Amitcp was originally based on their stack. But basically the
> database is the same as any unix database, they are stored as files
> and have no GUI for them though. So searching for unix tcp man pages
> on various search sites should come up with plenty of info. If you do
> ask about and they ask what winbloze machine you have, either ignore
> the question or lie or tell the truth because it doesn't really
> matter, because those files (wether via a GUI or a script file) are
> pretty much universal for any TCP stack. (At least so far as I've seen
> on 3 flavours of unix, 4 Microcrap OS's and 1 Amiga stack)
Thanks for those suggestions. During searches, I have uncovered a huge swag
of Unix related material. I think perhaps the Unix origin of so much
Internet software and systems is in itself a reason to install Linux of
BSD.
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