Fun with Dick and Jane

[Ron Widell]

In article <1989Jul30.031813.751 at servalan.uucp>
      rmtodd at servalan.UUCP (Richard Todd) writes:
[re. tape/floppy backup on A/UX 1.0]
>  Presumably you got all this software off of some Unix box to begin with; 
>why didn't you just do a straight uucp transfer to your home machine and 
>let it go overnight?  At 2400bps you can move 6Meg in about 8 hours.

A word of caution here- A/UX is SysV derived and thus has the ulimit
parameter. I don't remember what it is by default (and my docs. are not at
home) on A/UX, but on most SysV machines it's 2048 blocks = 1 Mbyte. It's
rather unpleasant to have a large file transfer abort after 1 Mbyte because
of this limit. In any case you'll still want to compress prior to the
transfer.

>in the "doesn't" category.  I'm just glad that with A/UX, Apple has finally 
>started selling computers with real operating systems.  
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