Now that's funny.  An arms race between developers and users.

cs

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:43:22PM -0700, Michael O'Keefe wrote:
> >>Querying the user and asking "Do you want to proceed anyway (Y/n)?"
> >>seems more productive.  Didn't programs _used_ to do that sort of
> >>thing?
> >
> >That's not the Unix Way(tm).
>
> Yeah, it became annoying to have to pipe '/usr/bin/yes' through
> everything. Then the programmers got even "smarter" and used the
> isatty() call to work out whether they were being piped !!!
>
> Bastards !
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