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 ! > > -- > Michael O'Keefe | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Live on and Ride a 03 BMW F650GSDakar| [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | > I like less more or less less than |Work:+1 858 845 3514 / | > more. UNIX-live it,love it,fork() it |Fax :+1 858 845 2652 /_p_| > My views are MINE ALONE, blah, blah, |Home:+1 760 788 1296 \`O'| > blah, yackety yack - don't come back |Fax :+1 858 _/_\|_, > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
