On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 13:54, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:38:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Further in your lengthy post, you mentioned that there aren't really any > > friendly tools, just a bunch of programs with a specific function that'll > > let you do what you want. This is how UNIX works, it's design philosophy. > > I always recommend to folks that, while using UNIX, they learn the UNIX > > way, as it's the least painful route in the long run. > > heh, the UNIX way is RTFM. IMO it's very sad (and extremely annoying) > that people complain that they have to read before doing :(
Very true. Another Unix philosophy is "There's always more than one right way". I guess you can't blame someone for seeing, what he feels to be, a better way and implementing it. Besides, even though some don't agree with how and why the script came to be there's probably some value in the exercise. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
