Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   How ironic.  You use a shell script whose major purpose is to detect and
> correct for differences between platforms to illustrate the effect of
> standard implementations.  Was that deliberate?

Yes, and it proves that such things are possible to write.

> > this isn't a intractable problem to deal with.
> 
>   Intractable?  No.  If it was, we would be justified in not bothering.
> But is it frustrating?  Yes!!  :-)

Yes, but dealing with such problems has a tendancy to keep me employed
(-:  ... and I would rather deal with such sane kinds of problems
rather than deal with <certain other> systems...

--kevin
-- 
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Cetacean Networks, Inc.                       |  fine food, good beer,
Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)                        |       or fun.
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