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From: Michael Heiming on 24 Nov 2005 13:42 In comp.os.linux.misc news(a)absamail.co.za: > Robert Heller wrote: >> Right. For some commands (such as find), there is no real chance of >> ANY viable 'graphical' interface. It might be possible, but you just don't want to limit a piece of software like 'find' to a GUI. Personally prefer CLI for most tasks. It doesn't limit work to how the person programming the GUI thought one should do things. > Perhaps that's because 'find' is an unstructured mess ? > Menues and 'forms' are a disciplining method of imposing structure. There's nothing unstructured or even a mess about it, just another piece of rock solid GNU software, superior to its commercial counter parts. [..] -- Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94) mail: echo zvpunry(a)urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' #bofh excuse 345: Having to manually track the satellite.
From: John Hasler on 24 Nov 2005 14:07 Michael Heiming writes: > There's nothing unstructured or even a mess about it, just another piece > of rock solid GNU software, superior to its commercial counter parts. To the extent that it is unstructured or messy this is due to backward compatibility with its proprietary predecessors. -- John Hasler john(a)dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Michael Heiming on 24 Nov 2005 14:56 In comp.os.linux.misc John Hasler <john(a)dhh.gt.org>: > Michael Heiming writes: >> There's nothing unstructured or even a mess about it, just another piece >> of rock solid GNU software, superior to its commercial counter parts. > To the extent that it is unstructured or messy this is due to backward > compatibility with its proprietary predecessors. Yep, 'find' works more or less the same on any unix, which is IMO a strong point about it and a general big pro of unix systems and their compatibility of usage. You want to install the shell of your choice, of course. -- Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94) mail: echo zvpunry(a)urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' #bofh excuse 142: new guy cross-connected phone lines with ac power bus.
From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on 24 Nov 2005 12:09 In <3ujih7F11iafkU2(a)individual.net>, on 11/23/2005 at 04:09 PM, blmblm(a)myrealbox.com (blmblm(a)myrealbox.com) said: >Yeah. I first became aware of him as someone even more fanatical >about the command line than I am, Well, I might be considered fanatical as well, since I despise systems that treat the UI as a black box that the user is not allowed to enhance or adjust. The fact that I exploit a GUI does not mean that I am willing to be limited to it, or to be polite to someone who attempts to so limit me. >(do *you* know what he means by that "<body not downloaded>"?) I would guess that he is responding based on a header that he downloaded via NNTP without ever fetching the associated body. If so, it's another red falg. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org
From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on 24 Nov 2005 12:04
In <3uji23F11iafkU1(a)individual.net>, on 11/23/2005 at 04:01 PM, blmblm(a)myrealbox.com (blmblm(a)myrealbox.com) said: >No, but I did change the From header to conform to one of the two >syntactic forms you requested in a previous post (I believe it was in >comp.editors). What additional information would you get if I added >a name? Putting your name in the From would allow human readers to recognize the article as being from you prior to fetching the body. It's certainly not required. For posters with multiple addresses or who periodically change providers, the name might be more useful than the actual address. Again, though, it is not required. Putting your address in a comment as you did is not helpful. >(Since you seem skeptical that I really am posting with trn: Why do you care what he believes? He's long since ceased to be credible. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org |