So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:00:14PM +0200:
> However, if "your favorite" TAR program is not able to extract TAR archives
> don't piss on me! Simply send a bug report to the maintainer of "your
> favorite" TAR program.
Yes, I piss on you (your words, not mine!), because you constantly attack
GNU tools with *NO* reason *WHAT* *SO* *EVER*! I have shown that GNU tar is
*PERFECTLY* able to extract files, even if GNU tar has to deal with tar
archives which it does not *LIST* correctly. I do not care about this,
neither does anyone else besides *YOU*, so it's *YOUR* task to patch GNU
tar!
> >"Please upgrade your shell to something usable like bash. Cannot go on."
>
> Using the word "upgrade" is very very quetionable in this context.
Why? Because I imply with the word that a better shell than sh should be
used? Well, this was my intention. If people want to work with old, overly
complicated tools which do not support features found in bash, than it's
their problem.
> If you overwrite /bin/sh with bash or if you modify the root account
> to use any other shell than sh (note that this is even /sbin/sh on modern
> available) you may completely corrupt your installation forcing a re-install
> >from CD.
Why? Just because the shell scripts are incompatible with bash? So upgrade
your shell scripts!
> ****************
> STOP! /proc holds information on processes and _not_ information on the
> system.
> *********
*WRONG* (at least for Linux). If other systems don't have such a nice thing
as the /proc filesystem, it's their problem.
> - This does not work on Linux because it uses nonstandard places
> for log files.
So it's not portable at all. Too bad for the minority of people using
"standard" Unices.
> - If a machine is 'up' for a long time the needed information has been
> scrolled out.
So in the "superior" OSes, there's then no way to get this information? Too
bad...
Alexander Skwar
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