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Started by Joseph Good
Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:07
Preferences - UNIX setup
Author: Joseph Good
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:07
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!!! ----- 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)
Re: Preferences - UNIX setup
Author: Alex D. Nghiem
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:39
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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