[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Boyce) wrote around 14 Nov 2002
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> So my answer is going only to the list.
No problem. I got it.
> At 04:29 AM 11/14/2002 +0000, Soren A wrote:
>>I don't think that what my proposed module does is a good fit with the
>>domain of File::Spec. You can already use File::Spec to get an
>>absolute path on Cygwin Perl (for example); you just cannot get it to
>>give you that path in any other *mode* than POSIX. But the outer
>>environment in which Cygwin is running is *not* a POSIX kind of OS and
>>its applications (and shells) don't understand POSIX file specs.
>
> As noted previously, I don't know exactly what your problem domain is
> and I don't use Cygwin myself so what I say cannot be directly
> antagonistic to your position.
Not only can you not be "directly antogonistic to [my] position," you
really cannot write anything applicable to my position at all. I am so
sorry that you wasted so much of your valuable time composing such a
lengthy reply without waiting to read, or looking for, the follow up
message in this thread in which I clarified my entire topic by
re-posting the original post, which I figured might be hard for a few
easily-confused List readers to have found, because it was under a
different Subject: line.
My original post answers all the questions. Again, sorry that you've
wasted your time through not understanding the extent of your mistaken
assumptions.
I think I'm probably not going to respond further to replies from you that
don't directly quote text from my original announcement. Sorry if that
seems intolerant but I have some pretty significant character flaws that
seem to come into play each time I try to connect to a new community. On
such occasions I always seem to find myself making enemies or alienating
some portion of the readership there. To make it much worse, I am not the
least bit troubled by this anymore and have no intentions of trying to
change myself in this regard. Getting more exercize, yes. Eating better-
balanced meals, yes. Calling my Dad on the phone more often, yes. Worrying
about how I can coerce myself into learning how to 'suffer fools {more}
gladly', no.
Soren A
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