[comp.unix.questions] UNIX doesn't need Norton

brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (12/07/89)

In article <11976@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Saligrama Subbarao) writes:
>     Here is a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time but
>  always forgot to. WHY doesn't someone make a whole NORTON UTILITES
>  for UNIX?

If you want the facilities of Norton, you can write them. There are a
dozen rm protectors running around, none of which depend on the raw disk
like MS-DOS utilities have to. Which other programs do you want?

> 				-Is UNIX really superior ???

Yes, to cheap imitations anyway.

  [ 5 lines to say -Kartik, subbarao@{phoenix,bogey,gauguin}.princeton.edu ]

Oh, Jooon-a-thaaan... you've forgotten to flame this guy's repetetive
signature... :-)

---Dan
``IBM stole the idea of subdirectories from Apple ProDOS'' :-)