Ted Roche wrote:
So we're all trying to write our own software that's kind of like
rsync, only slower. And more error-prone.
Rsync:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
Why are people using a database scripting language to perform an
OS-level task?
Can you say "learning curve", children...
VFP can serve as a general purpose programming language in a pinch,
but there is a world of free, simple, easy-to-use languages out there.
Writing it all in VFP is a symptom of NIH.
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
-- Henry Spencer Usenet signature, November 1987
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/philosophychapter.html
Not to mention how long would it take to install rsync on a windoze machine?
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