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Article #19Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading
From: John Hascall
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:23
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:23
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In article <Bu8pDC.HJ5@ux1.isu.edu> axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes: }One problem with nntp is that it provides only a limited set of ways }of accessing the news directories. For some users it is important to }be able to apply any Unix utility (e.g. grep) to news files. Cross }mounting disks via NFS makes this possible. Some of us see this as an NNTP advantage -- having an (irrational?) fear of a couple hundred students grepping through a gigabyte of news... John -- John Hascall ``Live with it pink-boy!'' Project Vincent Iowa State University Computation Center john@iastate.edu Ames, IA 50011 515/294-9551 [fax -1717]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!scott From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) Newsgroups: news.admin.technical,news.software.b,news.software.readers Subject: Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading Message-ID: <1992Sep13.022537.21735@news.iastate.edu> Date: 13 Sep 92 05:23:28 GMT References: <Bu2q5z.Avs@ux1.isu.edu> <Bu8pDC.HJ5@ux1.isu.edu> Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Lines: 16 Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG