-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
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This is because those programs use stdout for status indication, much like hget -v. Think of wget, which is forced to use a terminal in order to make a progress bar.
The idea is simple, and I'd like to go into more detail: the modern UNIX programmers want to make it easier for a more general public to use it, even at the risk of losing what UNIX was originally intended to. Ergo, we are more like UNIX than GNU or BSD is.
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