Re: two things...

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Foz> At the sheffield lug meet, I asked about a start up file and
> Foz> was told the boot.local in /etc/ - ummm.... thank god for
> Foz> Midnight Commander a search found the file in /sbin/init.d/
> What distribution is this? AFAIK putting init.d under /sbin violates
> the File Hierarchy Standard

Ha ha ha ha;) FHS ;)) These debian users assume all sorts ;)

> Foz> Oh one thing, I was told that NT can read Linux
> Foz> partitions...um how?
> Directly, I don't know, but you could export one with Samba. With VM,
> you can run NT inside a Linux process, and that NT could use Samba to
> access data from Linux.

Samba certainly is one method. Directly, there is some software for Win to
read ext2 partitions, can't remember what it is called though. I would be
surprised if it ran under NT, and I'm pretty sure it is read-only access
also.

> What are those straight lines for? XEmacs rules.

No. If those were emacs rules, they'd have lots of () brackets and be in
reverse polish notation ;)

Regards,

Alex.

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