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- From: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
- Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.093835.19869@cscdec.cs.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 09:38:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.011432.21520@cscdec.cs.com> <1992Jul16.154810.22976@bradley.bradley.edu> <lma.711326077@dayton.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <lma.711326077@dayton.Stanford.EDU> lma@dayton.Stanford.EDU (Larry Augustin) writes:
- >
- >In <1992Jul16.011432.21520@cscdec.cs.com> jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler) writes:
- >
- >This is a great idea. While they're at it, they should unbundle ls.
- >No, make that delete ls from future releases. Then maybe we'll start
- >to see some real file listers like those seen in the DOS world. Check
- >out your local DOS archive, there must be dozens of file listers.
- >
- I get the impression that you think influence from the DOS world is bad.
- Pity you sould have such a closed mind. But the fact is, product development
- is driven by a need. As long as 'vi' is around the programmers editor
- market suffers from the Good Enough syndrome. Its good enough (vi) so
- therefore why create anything else.
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- Jack Hudler - Computer Support Corporation - Dallas,Texas - jack@cs.com
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