smit wasn't letting me do that. couldn't find anything about max size, only allow large files. Eventually I found I could change the max size on the only file system that allowed large files, but only as root and as soon as I switched back to my normal user, the limit went back to default.
It was just one big mess. But then so is unix.
If you microphobic comic book guys hate MS so much, why not make an OS people would want to use instead of something older and more confusing Phylis Diller? (l)unix needs a top to bottom overhaul and a 21st century spin on what an OS is, instead of a 1968 on.
Spider-Man was great in the 1960's but he needed to be updated to bring to the big screen, ye ken? MS will continue to roar because they can at least offer people the illusion of what they want and all you comic book guys can say is "worst os ever" but we all know you're comic book guys and we just roll our eyes and double click on the icon that starts Doom3.
Ye are all bin playing ketchup for nearly a decade with your feared MS and by clinging to the past and living in fear, ye are only lagging further behind and isolating yourself from the people ye should be winning over is MS is the evil you claim it is.
l(unix) is for loons who like to read long, boring, uninformative man files. MS is for people who want to get stuff done and don't want to worry about swap space. I know ye wont ken, 'cause ye have yer original version of unix in a mylar bag on a shelf and wont even allow anyone to look at it, lest their gaze somehow penetrate the mylar and make yer precious less valuble, even though it is worthless.
But it sounded like what you wanted was to set the ulimit for a particular user account. You can set it to unlimited. In smit, you set "soft file size" equal to -1, and that user is now unlimited. Gotta be root, of course.
I offer no comment on the comics, because I never did read them, and have no opinion in the matter. I have programmed both on windows and various unixes, and other os's besides, so I do hold rather firm opinions on that subject, that I cannot deny.
I believe that's what Apple did, use a NIX base (BSD in this case) to create an OS much more usable and less confusing than Windows, but still with the power of NIX underneath.
IMHO AIX is probably the weakest UNIX ever (though I have never used HP-UX)..
make an OS people would want to use instead of something older and more confusing Phylis Diller? (l)unix needs a top to bottom overhaul and a 21st century spin on what an OS is, instead of a 1968 on.
Given that the NT kernel was built on VMS principles one could make the same case for windows. OSX is a UNIX for the user desktop, other UNIX versions (and Linux) were not deskgned for grandma, but they are coming around.
Ye are all bin playing ketchup for nearly a decade with your feared MS and by clinging to the past and living in fear, ye are only lagging further behind and isolating yourself from the people ye should be winning over is MS is the evil you claim it is.
Huh? half the technologies that get wrapped up into windows have been in the computing world for years.
MS is for people who want to get stuff done and don't want to worry about swap space.
MS is for guys who dont mind slowing their computer down with virus/spy ware scanning software, and other tools that it needs to be as safe as a *nix.