Re: HTTP Apache V5R3 problem

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern Hamberg wrote:
> One could look at the current  box, with its non-library file system, 
> and see a strong resemblance to the directory names of a Unix system - 
> /etc, /usr, /dev, /home and all that.
>
> But all this came when IBM added the IFS much late in its life cycle.
>
>   
Exactly my point.  If you never looked at the box before the 
introduction of the IFS, you might think it's a Unix variant. 
This would be especially true if you focused on either web applications 
or the various PASE utilities.  If, however, you've actually used the 
machine since its early days, you understand that there was a time when 
it was a library and object based system, and 20 characters was enough 
to uniquely identify every object in a system.  In fact, there are folks 
who are working productively on the machine and couldn't tell you what 
the IFS is, even if their favorite library is technically now a folder 
named  /QSYS.LIB/MYLIB.LIB.

In that matter, the i is very much like an elephant - what it is to me 
depends on my perception.  Is it s rope, or a tree, or a wall, or a 
spear?  It is all of these things - to see it otherwise is due only to 
my limited perception of reality.  The same with those who would 
pigeonhole the i: there are few things it cannot do.  Most limitations 
are those of perception, not any inherent limits of the system.  In 
fact, that would be a pretty good advertising gig, if IBM were ever to 
choose to advertise the box.  And at that point, we officially run into 
the land of offtopicness... <smile>

Joe