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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:01:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Minor nits about bindist...
Message-ID:  <199506121701.KAA02358@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506121515.JAA11544@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> from "Alan F Lundin" at Jun 12, 95 09:15:12 am

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> On Jun 10, 10:10pm, "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist...
> >
> > [ ... ]
> > I have always hated using HUP to cause reloads of data files, I find it
> > gross compared to the nice neat stuff that VMS does :-).
> 
> I see the smiley, but have no idea what the "nice neat stuff
> VMS does" is.  Just what is it that VMS does?

They are called mailboxes, and they look kinda like a named pipe, get
a set of VMS programmers manuals (about 6 3" volumes) and look it up :-).


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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