Joerg Schilling wrote: > Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >> >>> As an example, you might check for "compare". This is a program I >>> maintain since 1984 that is similar to "cmp(1)". >>> >> I'm confused: Why not just submit patches to make cmp faster? Why the >> need for a functionally-similar (identical?) but new utility? >> > > Looks like you are missing the fact that cmp sources have not been available > when compare has been created. Also note that the "compare -a" output > is better readable than the one from cmp. > > For this reason, compare is used on a dayly base, something that does not > apply > to e.g. imagemagic. > > Sorry Jörg, but I've been in the Unix business for the best part of 30 years (since the CS department used to run version 7 without a root password, so that you could fix your own problems). I had actually heard of your rewrite of cmp a while back, but never found the need to install it. I use cmp maybe weekly; I personally use ImageMagick several times a day, and have scripts that run assorted commands from it several times an hour. The ImageMagick people made some really bad choices over command names as far as I'm concerned - I think `convert' and `identify' are really bad choices - but you get used to it. The sky's not going to fall. It's certainly not Sun's fault or the fault of any community around here. Saying xxx command runs on every system, but on Solaris it's called imgxxx is not very productive. The change from dump to ufsdump between SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 caused me enough grief ... I think you need to chill.
Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
