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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > 1.  DOS is small and fast.
>
> It is smaller than Linux, for sure. Also supports 16-bit CPUs.
>
> > I can boot and be online with Kermit at a
> > local bbs in about a minute.
>
> Linux does not take very long to boot for me - maybe a second or two
> for the kernel, and then a few seconds for a tiny init and e2fsck
> sequence. Doesn't kermit take the same time on both OSes?

Usually I boot with loadlin, which doubles the time.  I have not risked 
putting LILO into the mbr yet.

> > 2.  I can print my email from my shell account with DOS - never figured
> > out how with linux.
>
> Your shell account uses ANSI printing sequences. (I actually
> discovered this earlier but forgot about it until now.) PuTTY is a
> Linux telnet/ssh client that understands those codes, at least
> according to this:
>
> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-printing

I will try linux PuTTY - I have it for Windows.

> A while ago, you said that lpd or lpr will not print as 'user' in BL2;
> I think the problem there is that it _is_ accessing some file which
> user does not have permissions for. A way around this would be to set
> everything in the root filesystem with full permissions (using a find
> script), which should cause it to start working, and then experiment
> with the permission settings as desired until it works correctly (i.e.
> without giving 'user' too many permissions if you want it to be a
> locked-down user).

What is the 'root filesystem'?

> David

I also cannot do a print screen in linux like I can in DOS.
I can't think of any good reason to be 'user'.  I can always set linux to 
allow root logins via telnet (when offline with both computers).

Sindi