IBM

Article: 7704 of alt.hackers
From: ajb@j300151363.resnet.cornell.edu (Andrew Berkley)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: IBM
Date: 23 Apr 1995 23:29:23 GMT
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In article <AJRY.95Apr23211826@edge3.st-and.ac.uk>,
Alistair James Robert Young <ajry@st-and.ac.uk> wrote:
>This isn't really IBM's fault - at least, not the OS/2 writers. AFAIK,
>there's *NO* way whatsoever to persuade a PC to boot from anything
>other than the first hard drive or floppy drive A:. Blame the PC
>designers.

Some BSR machines will boot off either drive depending on which one has
a disk in it.  Other than that they are worthless.

OBHack:
   A MBBS (dos version) -> Unix interface that allowed the dos MBBS
users to use all the power of a local Linux box without having to know
anything.  The MBBS for Linux costs about 5x more than MBBS for dos :)

All the program does is use Galacticomm's horribly kludgy method of
passing information by rlogin to set certain things like default name
in IRC, and a few other environment variables.  Doing the same thing for
SLIP - to provide dynamic IP addresses, as well as allowing PPP, CSLIP,
and password protected STATIC ips as well.

OBNeedToDoThisHack:
   Let the users do News this way.  Store multiple .newsrc files for
each user, and hack around with trn a bit to get rid of the 'I can't
run more than once per user' so it instead uses these .newsrc.username
files directly.

--
Andrew Berkley -- AEP '97 -- Cornell University
ajb6@cornell.edu -- http://wonder.resnet.cornell.edu

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