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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Charles Curley wrote: > Some of them are comprehensible to me. But then I've been at this for a > while. I wonder how much luck someone whose sole exposure to shell > scripting is Microsoft .bat files will have. Frankly, someone who hasn't seen more then .bat files shouldn't be changing those files. Reading them, with the aid of a decent book on shell programming, shouldn't be that hard. > > This is all really basic shell scripting. "man test" would make good reading > > some time, fwiw. > > Erik, that's as much of a cop-out as "Real programmers disassemble the > executable." Sorry, but not knowing the basic rules of a programming language (in this case, sh) and then expecting to read it is innane. I don't expect to read PL/1 code. > You are good at shell scripting. Perhaps Harry isn't. Some comments > will help him along. Actually, I'm awful at it. I've seen folks who are good at it (Marc Ewing was very good at it for example). > You want to try reading some of the Forth code I wrote 20 years ago, > before I learned the above about commenting? No? Well, neither do > I. That's why I started to comment profusely. Nope, I don't know Forth. Which is my point. If you really want to continue this, lets take it private. I doubt most folks are interested in seeing you tell me I'm a lazy, immature coder (which may be true, but that's besides the point). Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad | _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
