Fun_People Archive
12 Oct
NT is a great server OS because it's so user-friendly

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 17:20:21 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: NT is a great server OS because it's so user-friendly

From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)

... unlike UNIX, which requires all sorts of cryptic nonsense to
configure its server functions.

For example, in the FTP server that comes with Windows NT, you
can "annotate" a directory -- presumably so that, the first time
a connected user CDIR's to that directory, a message for that
directory is sent as part of the response to the CDIR -- you
create a file in the directory named "~FTPSVC~.CKM" containing
the annotation.

*Much* more friendly than the files with cryptic names like "README"
and "ftpwelcome" used by UNIX ftp daemons.

© 1995 Peter Langston