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2 total messages Started by Joseph Good Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:07
Preferences - UNIX setup
#430
Author: Joseph Good
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:07
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Could somebody please tell me what each of these do in Preferences?

Expert Preferences:

__  UNIX Expert          __  Public Sound Server
__  Large File System    __  Public Window Server

What do each do, and what are the dangers/pro's/con's of using them???

Thanks!!!

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Joseph Good
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rscott@nmsu.edu (NeXT mail welcome!!)

atlantis@acca.nmsu.edu  (Just plain ol' Unix)
Re: Preferences - UNIX setup
#467
Author: Alex D. Nghiem
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:39
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Joseph:

Unix Expert shows/hides the Unix related file system, such as /tmp, /usr, /etc  
and so forth.
+ allows you to access the entire file system
- is very confusing for beginners, since the sheer number of filesystems is  
overwhelming

Public Sound Server -- allows/prohibits others from sending sounds over the  
network to your speaker
+ allows you to create "haunted house effect" (hey, where's the music coming  
from?)
- I don't know of any

Public Window Server -- allows/prohibits others from sending windows to your  
machine
+ allows remote processing (run an application on one machine and display it  
somewhere else)
- a security hole, but I don't fully understand how

+ Large File System -- don't know anything about this one.  Anyone care to  
comment?


Best regards,


Alex Duong Nghiem          Phone: (512) 343-1111
Pencom Software            Fax:   (512) 343-9650    
9050 Capital of TX Hwy N.  Mail:  alex@pencom.com
Suite 300                  Mail:  co-Xist_support@pencom.com
Austin, TX 78759           Mail:  co-Xist_info@pencom.com
USA
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In article <1992Jul26.050708.3985@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good)  
writes:
> 
> Could somebody please tell me what each of these do in Preferences?
> 
> Expert Preferences:
> 
> __  UNIX Expert          __  Public Sound Server
> __  Large File System    __  Public Window Server
> 
> What do each do, and what are the dangers/pro's/con's of using them???
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> -----
> 
> Joseph Good
> +-------------------+ - More than just a band....
> | Green Dot Brigade | - It's a whole damn army of dots...
> +-------------------+ - And we've declared war on the 7-Up dots...
> 
> rscott@nmsu.edu (NeXT mail welcome!!)
> 
> atlantis@acca.nmsu.edu  (Just plain ol' Unix)
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