Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 01:57:00 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960827055700.00a3d640@interpath.com>
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At 01:19 PM 8/26/96 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: >>> > Other than the fact that its not freely available? >>> >>> Hrm, I thought it was (or used to be free). :( >>> -- >>> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) >>> Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. >>> "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >> >>My understanding is that the server-side code is not (and never has been). > >The client isn't free either (but you generally don't pay extra for the >clients; you only pay for the server). > >I think AFS is a good solution, but you certainly have to pay a lot of money >for it, which is a real shame. Just wait till Reece (a friend of mine) rewrites it and GPL's it. He has a client working that can pull files out of AFSspace, providing that you know the filename and a couple of other things. He has pieces of the server working (better, I might add, than the Transarc code). He's amazing. Now if I can get him to do a BSD-style release as well..... -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com
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